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In the federal government, the Greens rule with the ÖVP, in Vienna they lead tough election campaigns against each other. For Green Deputy Mayor Birgit Hebein, this is not a contradiction in terms. On a bike ride through Vienna to her favorite host, Hebein talks about parallel societies and emerging politics.
Since Veronika dolna | 6 am, October 1, 2020
In the center of Vienna, Birgit Hebein takes us on a trip to the countryside. By bike, as befits a green policy, it takes us to district 15. A church stands between the houses and a maypole is installed in the cobblestone courtyard in spring. At the inn across the street, the lounge is paneled in dark wood, the menu is extensive, and the beer is delicious.
That’s Birgit Hebein’s Favorite Inn, who was elected chairman of the Vienna Green Party two years ago and has been deputy mayor since June 2019. The turquoise green federal government negotiated them. For a long time, it was questionable whether she and the Viennese Greens, who are particularly left-wing, would go along with the coalition with the ÖVP.
In Vienna there is not much turquoise green in this election campaign. Gernot Blümel reminds you of a “traveling circus“she says.” You have to decide whether you are finance minister or Vienna’s top candidate, “she says. Hebein is firmly committed to ensuring that Refugee children from Greece are brought to Vienna. The ÖVP rejected this. “Embarrassing,” Hebein calls it.
However, he never regretted that his party formed a coalition with the ÖVP: “Then not a single child in Moria would be better off”, she says. And: “I’m happy every day that Rudi Anschober is leading us through the crown crisis, and not Ms. Hartinger-Klein.”
Hebein grew up in Feistritz on the Gail After graduating from high school, she moved to Vienna to become a social worker. She no longer wears the traditional costume that she wore back then. Hebein lived in an occupied house and was also in and out of Ernst-Kirchweger-Haus, which Blümel describes as the “catchment area for left-wing extremist associations.” “A big city can take very well that there are many open and cultural spaces,” says Hebein.
When Social worker Hebein worked with the homeless and addicts. She came to the Greens through district politics and in 2010 she transferred to the local council and became a social spokesperson. She negotiated the Vienna minimum income with and sat for safe places for street prostitution one. That she Party leader It was unexpected for many at the party. She was not considered the favorite, but the complex mode of voting favored the compromise candidate.
He took over the planning department and a special political style from his predecessor Maria Vassilakou: In the case of projects that meet resistance, a way is sought to implement them quickly. Once the ideas are visible, by calculation, people will see how good they are.
Hebein has demonstrated this in many places in Vienna in recent months: with Meeting areas and set up on short notice Cycle paths. With streets closed to traffic during the summer and refreshed and with a swimming pool at a junction of the Gürtel, one of the main arteries of the city. He offended his coalition partner, the SPÖ, several times. Load “Pop-up Policy” Hebein responds: “The opposite of PopUp is standing still.” Its goal is to show what roads can do.
Hebein would also like to rethink the issue Integration cause it is discussed too undifferentiated for your liking. She finds her competitors to be “frugal when it comes to reporting data.” Poor German language skills among pupils are less of a source of criticism than business: “I hope these children receive special support.” The ÖVP and FPÖ warn against them in Vienna. “Every time someone talks about a parallel society, I have the feeling that they are offending my neighbors”, she says. In their home district, where the inn is located, one in two people has a migrant background.
By the way, we hardly hit any bike trails on our way here. Although there would have been a few on parallel streets, and not just since last summer.
When it comes to voting, Vienna is by far the most important place in Austria for the Greens. In the last elections to the National Council, more than a quarter of all green Kreuzerl came from the capital.
When it came to occupying important positions in the course of government involvement, Vienna was not the only basin used by the Greens. Only former Secretary of State for Culture Lunacek and Minister of Justice Zadić are Viennese. Party Leader and Vice Chancellor Kogler and Environment Minister Gewessler are from Styria, Klubobfrau Maurer is Tyrolean and Health Minister Anschober is from Upper Austria, as does Ibiza’s U Committee member David Stögmüller. His colleague there, Nina Tomaselli, comes from the second green heart, Vorarlberg. This is where the most successful national organization today is based. The Greens reached nearly 19 percent in state elections nearly a year ago, including the continuing turquoise green coalition.
But even if there is a seven-hour train ride between Vienna and Bregenz and ÖVP Governor Wallner places worlds between the Greens of Vorarlberg and Vienna, there is a well-known pattern. The Rhine Valley is one of the most densely populated regions in Austria and the Greens are better off in Vienna, the more people live in one square kilometer.
Downtown districts with a high proportion of academics have been strongholds across Austria for decades. Five years ago the Greens were in the single digits in the southern districts and across the Danube. (P. Schöggl)
