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The party is over: Even at the height of the coronavirus crisis, the former president of the Chamber of Commerce, Harald Mahrer (ÖVP), did not miss the opportunity to be photographed with a magnum bottle from a Styrian winery and to call in a glossy magazine to enjoy life.

Okay, one could say that it was meant as encouragement to consume more and thus get the economy going again. However, it came across as detached, even arrogant; it was an imposition on all the people who were in existential need, whether employees or entrepreneurs, who were not in the mood for a party at all.

Mahrer didn't get it, he hasn't used the years since to reach out to them. On the contrary, the mere fact that he presumed to earn 28,500 euros a month as president of the Chamber of Commerce, ÖVP Economic Association, and General Council of the National Bank, that he believed he had to grant his employees in the chamber a salary increase of 4.2 percent in times like these, is incredible: Mr. and Mrs. Austrian are told by their peers that they must be modest with wages and pensions, otherwise inflation would be further fueled, but in the Chamber of Commerce, everything should be different.

The damage Mahrer has caused is enormous. Types like him and ÖVP parliamentary group leader August Wöginger seal the end of the People's Party: Wöginger stands for the idea that corruption in the sense of cronyism should be "normal"; for complete incomprehension that this is unforgivable towards the citizens. 

In his case too, it is about detachment, even arrogance: Equality of opportunity for all, let alone things like qualification or performance, is disregarded. The only thing that counts is the party: Only those who are deemed worthy by it or one of its representatives may take on a higher position. 

The ÖVP had time to correct this and ensure that what Mahrer and Wöginger embody disappears. However, through Sebastian Kurz, they only tried to cover it up. This is now backfiring. 

Now it's five past twelve: At the federal level and in Styria, they have already fallen behind the FPÖ. They are on the way to becoming a middle party. With Christian Stocker as chairman without ambitions for anything. 

Types like Mahrer may be replaced. However, their spirit remains: For example, in the salary increases in the Chamber of Commerce, many were involved; also state presidents, consistently people who are very powerful, not least in the ÖVP.

A sense for power characterizes their kind. Therefore, they will not go down with the party but will try to jump ship in time. And they will look to form a new list with like-minded people for the upcoming election. With a top candidate of the caliber of Sebastian Kurz, who outshines everything.

In any case, this is a scenario that has now become damn realistic for the ÖVP. 

Johannes Huber runs the blog dieSubstanz.at – Analyses and Backgrounds on Politics

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