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After the voting, Gerstorfer thanked him for the “great confidence” despite the “many imponderables at last” and spoke of a “great result”. 86.8 percent of the delegates confirmed them in the digital vote for another two years as leader of the SP state party. In 2018 it was a little more with 89.7 percent, in his first election in 2016 with 95.8 percent Gerstorfer got even more. Its deputies are Christian Makor (elected with 88.8 percent), Renate Heitz (85.7), Andreas Stangl (86.1), Alois Stger (83), Gerda Weichsler-Hauer (84.3) and Peter Binder ( 70, 9).
The lists for the 2021 state elections were also approved. Here Gerstorfer was chosen as the best candidate on the state list for the first time with 90.2 percent of the delegate votes. Behind them are Hans Karl Schaller (elected with 80 percent), Sabine Engleitner-Neu (88) and Christian Makor (86.7). The electoral lists are headed by Peter Binder, Gabriele Knauseder, Erich Wahl, Sabine Engleitner-Neu and Gerstorfer.
The youth of the party calls for “democratization”
It was the first digital conference of a party established in Austria. It was largely without a breakdown. The approximately 270 delegates, who sat at their computers, participated in discussions and voted online, did not have to do without music either, the band “tr & b” performed. In the “Central” next to the regional office in Linz there were about 25 people, mainly the Presidium, the electoral committee and the employees. Crown measurements such as distance, mask and Plexiglass partitions were adhered. According to the SP, more than 2000 people were there live, making the party congress the largest and first digital party congress in the history of SP Upper Austria.
The key proposal “Invest instead of blocking” was approved unanimously. Another 22 motions were voted on. The four youth organizations contributed a lot. In two motions they demanded that the age structure be better reflected in the electoral lists (over 38 years) and that the state SP be “democratized” in general. For example, as recently in the Linz city party, there should be a direct election of the party presidency to better involve the members, whose number has dropped from around 31,000 to 26,000 since 2015. Especially the member of the National Council , Eva-Maria Holzleitner, asked for changes here. Nina Andree, president of the Socialist Youth, said in a statement that the party would have preferred the boys not to argue too much and not present too many motions ten months before the state elections. Linz state parliament member Peter Binder chimed in that it was a much larger company at the national level to change the statutes in this way than just in Linz.
It was then decided, with about 70 to 80 percent of the delegate votes, that the two structurally critical applications should be assigned to the state party executive. The bylaws commission must make a corresponding proposal for implementation in the summer of 2022.
The vast majority of the other proposals were accepted.
Johann Kalliauer, Pamela Rendi-Wagner, Birgit Gerstorfer and Klaus Luger Image: SP
“I won’t stop being annoying”
In previous speeches and discussions, Gerstorfer had announced that he would not stop being annoying. As a first step towards full employment, which should be the goal, he called for a “50+ job guarantee” for Upper Austria. Specifically, unemployed people over 50 must be employed in the municipal sector or social institutions, the state and AMS must bear 100 percent of the costs of wages and salaries for a year. She will also continue to fight for free child care throughout the year.
The leader of the federal party Pamela Randi-Wagner criticized the federal government for not applying its sentence “whatever it takes” to employees. Rendi-Wagner also said that upcoming corona mass tests would only be a “complete test scheme” if they were repeated after five to six days. And now the vaccination strategy must be precisely crafted. Gerstorfer had an online conversation with Berlin-based German Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Hubertus Heil (SPD): In Germany, with the participation of the Social Democratic government, the basic pension will be introduced and working conditions will improve in the industry meat, in Austria the regulation of mincers without deductions will be abolished, In Upper Austria, VP and FP would be had on the terrace during the crisis. “I’m next to a lot of hardworking people in the engine room,” Gerstorfer said.
Kalliauer is “really good”
AK President Johann Kalliauer announced that he would be “fully involved” in the 2021 election year and denounced the “VP system” with “40 percent of the vote and 100 percent of the power.” Like the mayor of Linz, Klaus Luger, who spoke in favor of a “culture of debate” in democracy and within the party and wants to address “future problems” in the innovative industry, for example, and Rendi-Wagner, He emphasized that the SP would be stronger in the 2021 state elections. It should be.
One notable application was that of Aktion Kritischer Schler, VSSt and Sozialistische Jugend, calling for the abolition of Matura. One must learn the Corona lessons and replace the Matura with meaningful project work. This application was also assigned to the state party executive. The statutes commission will make a corresponding proposal in the summer of 2022. SP national manager Georg Brockmeyer had said before the party congress: “Much of what defines our school system today comes from Maria Theresia; 250 years later , in the era of digitization and globalization, you can think about changes “.
