Chancellor briefly inviolable, but SPÖ is now catching up – politics

It was to be expected: with the electoral victory of the Viennese SPÖ under Mayor Michael Ludwig in the federal capital, the federal SPÖ led by Pamela Rendi-Wagner can also benefit. According to the poll carried out by the opinion research institute Unique Research for the new issue of the news magazine “profil”, the SPÖ has gained two percent at the federal level and therefore the highest value of all parties.

While the SPÖ is now 22 per cent, the ÖVP with Chief and Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is also on the rise and has now risen by one per cent to 40 per cent. So the Kurz “brand” also brings up the chancellor’s question: 40 percent would currently vote for Kurz as chancellor, which is four percent more than before. While things are going uphill for the federal SPÖ, the head of the SPÖ is losing ground in a nutshell: eleven percent would make Rendi Wagner chancellor, minus two percent.

Green vs. blue head-to-head race

Behind Kurz and Rendi-Wagner there are only single-digit chancellor values: FPÖ boss Norbert Hofer loses one percent and remains at eight percent, Greens boss Werner Kogler loses two at six percent and the head of NEOS, Beate Meinl. Reisinger remains unchanged at five percent. The other changes in the parties are curious: the Greens lose three percent to 13 percent despite the strong result of the Vienna elections.

Also at 13 percent with less than three percent is the FPÖ, which is also losing popularity, but it is not as dramatic as in the Vienna elections. NEOS can increase by one percent, now they are up to nine percent. In Vienna, a red-green coalition (29 percent) is the most popular, but red-turquoise (26 percent) and red-pink (23 percent) are also lurking. And: The fact that crown numbers are increasing is the fault of the population (61 percent) and not the government (19 percent) or the federal states (5 percent).