St. Valentin’s mayor Kerstin Suchan-Mayr (SP) put on the cremal hat and sunglasses and imitated the Italian pop duo al Bano and Romina Power on the evening before for the municipal council election at the “Faschings hit parade” of the SPÖ. The SP had a good laugh at the legendary Karaokesingen in the Valentinum filled to the last seat and even more afterwards. Suchan-Mayr and their “Valenteam”, as the Red town hall group called itself, gained two mandates as an absolute majority. The fact that other political groups will choose the city chief would not be necessary and at most a gesture of good cooperation.
The conditions in Amstetten and Ernsthofen are stored differently. The VP did not achieve an absolute majority and did not obsess before, so you have to negotiate for the mayoral election. The municipal regulations involve all parties depending on the strength of the vote with city council seats, from this point of view everyone rules and is not in opposition. For the election of the mayor in the municipal council, however, alliances must be forged, which, like in Amstetten, then keep the whole period between the Greens and the VP. Now Vice Mayor Dominic Hörlezeder (G) knows that he is already out of the race: “Unfortunately – the result that we have lost a mandate,” he says. A three -all -round alliance between the VP, the Greens and the NEOS for the re -election of Christian Haberhauer (VP) is off the table. “Now it is still being negotiated,” VP parliamentary group leader Markus Brandstetter does not want to anticipate anyone. Until February 19, the constituent municipal council meeting, a pact must stand, according to reports, the blacks are approaching Haberhauer and the red around Vice Mayor Gerhard Riegler (SP).
In Ernsthofen, Mayor Karl Huber (VP) and his SP opposite Manfred Gaßner are fundamentally in the word not to be lifted into the saddle by the FP as a stirrup holder, which has moved into the local council with two seats. “Only a few little cogs would have to be shot,” says Gaßner.
In the city of Haag, it would be purely arithmetical that “for Haag”, SP and FP together mayor Lukas Michlmayr (VP), who lost the absolute majority. The city leader can now pull a few turns over the slopes without worrying on a skiing holiday. “The VP is the strongest party, so it is also the will to voters that it puts the mayor,” says “for Haag” chairman Martin Stöckler. There is enough time for negotiations. For the citizen list, Stöckler calls for a vice mayor and an important area for the third city council that the citizen list has conquered. She already has the sewage department.
Source: Nachrichten
