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Michael Ludwig (SP), Birgit Hebein (Green), Gernot Blmel (VP), Dominik Nepp (FP) and Christoph Wiederkehr (NEOS).
However, for the fourth time, Heinz-Christian Strache ranks first, but for the first time for the HC Strache team.
Top of the list shortly:
Michael Ludwig (SP)
Michael Ludwig (SP)
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The mayor of Vienna succeeded Michael Hupl in 2018. Born on April 3, 1961, the Viennese grew up a typical working-class child in a community building in Floridsdorf. He studied political science and history. The subject of his dissertation is quite unusual: he dealt with the state party SED of the GDR and also traveled to the so-called “workers and peasants state”, in 1984 he began to work as a course and project leader in adult education. He entered politics in 1994 as a district councilor. In 2007, the 59-year-old finally became part of the city government team. At that time he assumed the position of councilor for housing and urban renewal from later Chancellor Werner Faymann, who at that time passed to the federal government as minister of infrastructure.
In March 2009, Ludwig was also promoted to deputy mayor. However, he had to cede this title to then-neo-municipal councilor Maria Vassilakou (Green) when red-green was first published in 2010. In early 2018 Ludwig won a vote against Andreas Schieder for the presidency of the SP. of Vienna, a few months later he was elected mayor of Vienna.
Birgit Hebein (green)
Birgit Hebein (GRNE)
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The 53-year-old woman with the green facade was born in Villach. Skilled social worker and TCM therapist (born January 13, 1967) was crowned successor to former Vienna Green No. 1 Maria Vassilakou in 2018. She also took over as councilor, including agendas for planning and transportation, as well as the deputy mayor’s office.
She has been in the city parliament for a long time, that is, since 2010. Before that, she was a district councilor and club president at Rudolfsheim-Fnfhaus for five years. Hebein was also active in the AUGE green union from 2000 to 2002. Before his political career, he worked, among other things, in the social service of the Caritas Vienna train station and in the conscientious objection consortium.
Dominik Nepp (FP)
Dominik Nepp (FP)
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The main liberal candidate is the full name of Dominik Friedrich Nepp. The 38-year-old Vienna-born (born February 14, 1982) emerged from the shadows of his Viennese bosses, Heinz-Christian Strache and Johann Gudenus, when they resigned from their political roles in the wake of the Ibiza video, and took over state party leadership.
Nepp’s political career began in 2000 when, after graduating from high school, he held positions with the Ring of Freedom Youth. After serving as district councilor and councilman, he became club president in 2015. That year he also ended his association with a business company. Since 2017 he has also served as Deputy Mayor. He is also active as the district party chairman in Dbling. Between 2013 and 2017 he completed the “Master of Arts in Political Management” while working.
Gernot Blmel (Vice President)
Gernot Blmel (Vice President)
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The studied philosopher assumed the vice presidency of Vienna at its darkest moment, after the devastating electoral defeat of 2015, when he slipped into the single-digit percentage range. Before the 38-year-old native of Lower Austria (born October 24, 1981), who now lives in Vienna, moved into state politics, he was secretary general in the federal vice presidency.
He is considered a close confidant of Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who brought him back to the federal government two years later (2017). Under Trkis-Blau he became Minister of the Chancellery and was also responsible for arts and culture. In the current turquoise-green federal government, Blmel serves as finance minister. Until his return to the federal government, Blmel also served as a non-executive councilor for the city of Vienna.
Christoph Wiederkehr (NEOS)
Christoph Wiederkehr (NEOS)
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The main candidate and leader of the pink party, at 30 years old, is the youngest in the ranks of the first list of the city council, although age can be deceiving. Because Wiederkehr is a political professional. He has been a member of the city parliament for five years and has been president of the club and head of the pink state party and city council club since the fall of 2018. He succeeded the former president of the pink capital, Beate Meinl-Reisinger, who he replaced party leader Matthias Strolz as head of the federal government.
Wiederkehr was born on April 12, 1990 in Salzburg. After graduating from high school in 2009, the former headmaster of the school moved to Vienna to study law and political science, the latter already completed his master’s degree, where he soon became involved in the student preparation organization NEOS, JUNOS, and He led his team for three years. He was also an employee of the Constitutional Court. In 2015, at the age of 25, he finally managed to join the Vienna City Council.
Heinz-Christian Strache (Team HC Strache)
Heinz-Christian Strache (Team HC Strache)
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Heinz-Christian Strache is now running for the fourth time as number 1 of a party in the Vienna elections, but this time not for the FP, of which he was a long-time leader. After the Ibiza video surfaced in May 2019, he resigned from all political positions. At that time he was Vice Chancellor, Chairman of the Federal Party and Chairman of the Vienna State Party. In 2019 he was even expelled from the party. It was the end of his long career in the blue match, which started early.
Strache was born on June 12, 1969 in Vienna. In 1991, the trained dental technician took his first steps in district politics, that is, in his home district, Landstrae. In 1996 he moved to the local council, in 2004 he was appointed chairman of the state party. Since 2005 he was also the leader of the federal Freedom Party. Strache has now found a new political home in the “Alliance for Austria” (DA) founded by renegade members of the Vienna FP community, which has been renamed the “HC Strache Team” and is now running as the leading candidate.
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