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How things will continue with the political project of former FPÖ boss Heinz-Christian Strache will be discussed on Tuesday night by the “HC Strache Team”. However, they are not thinking of a dissolution, according to Secretary General Christian Höbart.
Although mail ballots are still being counted, it is highly likely that the “HC Strache Team” will not move to the local council and state parliament. How things will go with the new party of the former vice chancellor and head of the FPÖ, Heinz-Christian Strache, the board will discuss in a meeting that night. A party dissolution “is not at all in the room,” Secretary General Christian Höbart said Tuesday.
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After all, projections for district elections promise Strache’s team terms in a total of 16 districts. Strache himself could, if he wanted, remain politically active, as a district councilor.
“He will definitely not be a district councilor.”
Strache himself declared Tuesday in an interview with the news magazine “News” that he did not want to accept a mandate at the district level. “I myself, of course, will remain a political person, but I certainly will not be a district councilor, but I will support future district councilors from Strache’s team whenever I can,” the former vice chancellor said in an online report from the magazine. . Instead, he wanted to work as an entrepreneur and found an online medium, Strache said.
The fact that Strache is thinking in his own medium is nothing new. In the course of the investigation into the Ibiza affair, for example, the business and corruption prosecutor’s office found plans for a Strache media project with then-editor-in-chief of “Krone.at”, Richard Schmitt. After the Ibiza video was released, Schmitt left his position at “Kronen Zeitung” in July 2019 and has been working as online editor-in-chief of “Oe24” ever since. In a prosecutors report it was said that Strache had not put the project on hold: “Postponed, but not canceled,” he called it, “Der Standard” reported in July 2020. Schmitt said at the time that it switched to “Oe24” I did it for him.
“Online magazine” and debate events
Strache now told “News” that he wanted to found “an online magazine” in which “the concerns” of Strache’s team would be processed. In addition, he and his party are planning “debate events for all citizens” regularly.
In any case, Höbart was somewhat surprised by Strache’s statement Tuesday afternoon: The matter should have been discussed at the board meeting that night. In fact, Strache said internally that he did not plan to accept a mandate from the district council. However, they wanted to discuss this at the meeting, Höbart explained, however, he did not want Strache’s decision to be finally set in stone.
>> to the “News” report
(APA / Red.)
