ÖVP Starts Austria Tour in Tyrol

Although there are no elections scheduled for a long time, the ÖVP is still going on an Austria tour. The turquoise government team wants to "hear what moves the people" across the country in the coming months and to present them with the work program, which likely includes the planned painful consolidation measures. The starting point of the tour is today's visit by Chancellor and party leader Christian Stocker and Secretary General Nico Marchetti at the Gauder Fest in the Tyrolean Zillertal.

Austria Tour Begins

By the end of the summer, all 39 regional electoral districts are to be visited by an ÖVP government member, each accompanied by federal party representatives such as Secretary General, Club Chairman August Wöginger, or the Second President of the National Council Peter Haubner. The motto of the tour is analogous to the title of the government program of the three-party coalition "Doing the Right Thing. For Austria." "The regulars' tables of Austria are the natural habitat of the People's Party," explained the Secretary General about the tour. Living a new style of political interaction also means "engaging in exchange with the population and taking their concerns and worries seriously," said Marchetti. "Politics thrives on dialogue," Stocker also emphasized that direct exchange with Austrians is important to him.

ÖVP with a Series of Losses

Stocker has been the official ÖVP party chairman since the end of March, after he took over the People's Party in January following the failure of the first coalition negotiations with SPÖ and NEOS and the departure of Karl Nehammer. In the Vienna election last Sunday, the People's Party had to endure the latest in a series of almost continuous electoral defeats since 2021. According to the preliminary final result, it fell below the 10 percent mark again in the municipal council election in the federal capital, having previously been just over 20 percent.

(APA/Red)

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