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Noteworthy: after a quick left waltz in Vienna, it should already be clear after Michael Ludwig’s election that there is no way around rose-red. Is that so?
Coalition talks to form a federal government are often difficult. They last on average 60 days, the record is four months (exactly 129 days in 1962, if you don’t remember). From time to time they also break out, as under Wolfgang Schüssel and Alexander Van der Bellen (black-green) or under Viktor Klima and again Wolfgang Schüssel (red-black).
And in Vienna? It doesn’t last long. SPÖ boss Michael Ludwig wants to finish in less than four weeks. After just one round with three matches, he made his decision: Pink. So everything is palette? Is there nothing to get in the way of red and pink? Seven scenarios, perhaps not 100 percent serious, that Michael Ludwig and Christoph Wiederkehr could still stumble over on their skating pair.
1. Mayor Michael Ludwig fulfills Christoph Wiederstein’s dream and gives him the right to head the department of education. At the same time, he reports directly to the mayor’s education director, Heinrich Himmer, a loyal SPÖ man anyway, and forces him to follow his instructions.
2. Michael Ludwig takes Christoph Wiederkehr’s election campaign announcement at his word that he too wants to be a controlling party in government. And he entrusts the chief of Neos with political sovereignty over the park sheriffs, passenger controls, the market office and the food police.
3. The SPÖ is reducing the size of the city senate to document the willingness to save in crown times and the resulting economic crisis. Oh! The Neos and Christoph Wiederkehr would no longer be entitled to a seat on the town hall. In analogy to the secretaries of state at the federal level, Michael Ludwig offers the Pinkies in Vienna the new city clerk’s office to be created.
4. Christoph Wiederkehr brings a bottle of Kremser Sandgrube to the next red-pink date as a little thank you for the punch donuts last served by the SPÖ. Michael Ludwig stands up without saying a word, goes to the door, turns briefly, does not forget his characteristic greeting, and leaves. How? It’s not understood? Krems! Who went to school there? Was there a brief member of a high school student association that wins? Did you graduate there before your political purification and transfer to Vienna? Have you never heard of Michael Häupl?
5. Christoph Wiederkehr realizes that he could not measure up to long-term political professional Michael Ludwig in the negotiations and takes Federal President Beate Meinl-Reisinger on his negotiating team. Ludwig had welcomed them in his free style to become mayor: “No system change can be expected from a master of the swamps and an emperor of publicity.” The very young friendship between the generations between Ludwig and Wiederkehr is breaking down.
6. Birgit Hebein, standing under the door that has been kept open for the SPÖ, offers that the Greens resign from the second position of the city council; and that it approves the department with the areas of responsibility for the care of pets and animal welfare, with special attention to the preservation of the habitat of the ground squirrel and the common hamster.
7. Gernot Blümel acknowledges that the job of finance minister and parenting a baby takes more time than initially thought in teenage moods and lets Michael Ludwig’s old friend Walter Ruck go first.
Seven reasons why it doesn’t work with rose-red.
Well, the chances for rose-red shouldn’t be that bad.
