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2000 participants were present at the first online party conference. Birgit Gerstorfer was confirmed in the elections and will also be the first leading candidate in the Upper Austrian state elections.
Birgit Gerstorfer was re-elected as state party chairperson at the SPÖ Upper Austria online party conference on Saturday. She will also be the first major candidate to lead Upper Austrian comrades to the 2021 state elections. As a campaign theme, she launched the call for free childcare in the ring. Federal party leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner demanded an investment package and precautions against a third shutdown.
Rendi-Wagner pointed to the “dramatic” situation in the labor market and suspected that the federal government was apparently taking the crown’s rules so seriously that it also approached the “maximum distance for workers.” In Corona’s crisis management, he misses forward-looking planning. “You slept all summer” and carelessly played the advantage of the first confinement. Now you must take precautions so that there is no third blockage.
Classic red themes for state elections in Upper Austria
Gerstorfer wants to score points in state elections with classic red themes: full employment, pensions, education, childcare and care. He particularly stressed the demand for a free kindergarten: Upper Austria “is not at all a prominent place when it comes to childcare,” Gerstorfer said. The situation worsened with the reintroduction of kindergarten afternoon fees in 2018. She will “continue to be a nuisance” and will demand free child care around the clock.
The party congress was originally planned for May 16, but was postponed due to Corona and merged with the party congress (pre-election). However, the blockade also intervened this time, so the party conference was held as an online event. According to SPÖ Upper Austria, a total of 2000 people were on the screen, making it the largest party conference in the history of the state party.
Gerstorfer received 86.8 percent of the delegate’s votes, in 2018 she received 89.68 percent. Entering his third term at the head of the party. His main candidacy for the state elections of 2021 is, however, a premiere: in the last state elections in 2015, he was not even in politics, but as the state manager of AMS. Gerstorfer assumed control of the state party in 2016 as the first woman and, with the exception of a municipal council term in the 1990s, as a career change in a phase of great turbulence after a failure in the state elections of 2015. It took them back to calmer waters, but the polls are still in the order of magnitude of the 2015 election results, as shown by the political barometer of “Oö. Nachrichten” and the institute specters last week .
Hans Karl Schaller remains second on the list
Number two on the state list for state elections is trade unionist Hans Karl Schaller, followed by Sabine Engleitner-Neu and club president Christian Makor. Peter Binder tops the list of constituencies for Linz and its surroundings. In Innviertel (Gabriele Knauseder), Mühlviertel (Erich Wahl) and in Traunviertel (Engleitner-Neu) there are leading candidates who are not currently in the state parliament. In Hausruckviertel, Gerstorfer, currently a social counselor in the state government, which is based on the proportional system, is number one.
The main motion of the state party executive “Invest instead of blocking: We fight for a better Upper Austria” was accepted 100 percent. There were discussions on a proposal from youth organizations aimed at direct election of the party presidency and increasing quorums for long-term leaders. In the end, the majority was not put to a vote, but instead assigned to a bylaws commission that is supposed to prepare a corresponding proposal for the party’s next state congress in two years.
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