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FPÖ boss Norbert Hofer comments on the Vienna elections.
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Shortly after the end of the Vienna elections, the head of the FPÖ, Norbert Hofer, announced a press conference. From 7pm he will comment live on the FPÖ debacle, the head of the FPÖ of Tyrol, Markus Abwerzger, has already spoken in favor of the whereabouts of Hofer.
FPÖ leader Norbert Hofer will not draw any personal conclusions from his party’s debacle in the Vienna city council elections. He explained this to reporters at Vienna City Hall on Sunday evening. “The bottom is over, now it can only go up,” he said. In terms of content, you don’t want to change anything except pay more attention to “soft topics” like care.
FPÖ should stick together
It is important that the party stick together now, Hofer said. It was clear from the outset that it would be especially difficult for the Vienna FPÖ after the Ibiza scandal and expenses of former party leader Heinz-Christian Strache. “Today is a very difficult day but it was to be expected,” he said. The party leader made a comparison with the Vienna Marathon. You are now in the Prater-Hauptallee; The situation is difficult, but it is important to persevere.
He himself had thrown all the reputation he had built on the scales to save the party. From Hofer’s point of view, things could have been even worse: he recalled the consequences of the Knittelfeld rift, when the FPÖ was later even expelled from the Styrian state parliament.
Abwerzger for the whereabouts of Hofer
Tyrolean FPÖ chief Markus Abwerzger sees no need for changes at the top of the federal party, even after the disaster of the Freedom Party in the Vienna elections. “Norbert Hofer should stay,” said Abwerzger of the APA. The extent of the defeat is solely due to the “loss of confidence” caused by Heinz-Christian Strache due to his expense issue: “The epicenter of the loss of confidence is in Vienna and Klosterneuburg.”
The FPÖ’s main candidate, Dominik Nepp, “is not to blame.” “We could have created Superman and it would have been of no use,” said the president of the Tyrolean FPÖ. Obviously, this electoral defeat must also be analyzed at the federal level. This will happen in a week in the Presidium of the Federal Party of the Freedom Party. In the federal government, however, Abwerzger saw the Freedom Party somewhat consolidated according to recent polls.
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