It has to defend 97.8 percent, which it had achieved three years ago in Wels. However, the party leader only gave the 71 percent target that she had achieved in a vote of confidence to the base in the previous year.
The party’s committees will be downsized on Saturday, and the chairwoman will only have six deputies in future, including Vienna’s mayor Michael Ludwig, Krnten’s governor Peter Kaiser, the second President of the National Council Doris Bures and the newly elected women’s chairwoman Eva-Maria Holzleitner. While internal critics such as the Lower Austrian provincial boss Franz Schnabl and ex-federal managing director Max Lercher are integrated into the presidium and board of directors, the provincial governor of Burgenland, Hans Peter Doskozil, does not stand for candidacy at the party conference.
In terms of content, the focus is on ten lead applications, which, among other things, call for a reduction in working hours, wealth and inheritance taxes and the abolition of deductibles in the health care system. The party congress is held in presence, 642 delegates are invited. The 3G rule and mask requirement apply.
The SP Federal Party Congress from 10 a.m. in the livestream:
The planned process:
- 10:00 a.m. opening
- 10.15 a.m. Speech by Mayor Michael Ludwig
- 10:30 a.m. Speech by the federal party and club chairman Pamela Rendi-Wagner
- 11:20 am Reports from the cashier and control
- 11:30 a.m. Discussion on the reports
- 1.30 p.m. Election of the Federal Party Executive Committee, the Federal Party Presidium, the Control Commission and the adjudicators
- 2:15 p.m. Motions and resolutions, report election results
- 6:15 p.m. Closing remarks: Song of Work International
