The Neos started their election campaign yesterday on Linz’s main square with the Queen song “Don’t stop me now” and lots of pink balloons. Not only the community and state parliament candidates had come, but also the national councilor and party leader Beate Meinl-Reisinger to swear around 100 viewers to the final spurt of the election campaign. In Upper Austrian politics, there needs to be a willingness to do things a little differently, said Meinl-Reisinger, be it in combating the shortage of skilled workers or in expanding childcare. Much is clear for the time after the election: who will become governor, that FP and VP form a coalition and “Greens and SPÖ make themselves comfortable in the proportional government,” said top candidate Felix Eypeltauer. The only guarantee for change are the Neos: “So that everything doesn’t stay the same.”
The Linz FPÖ also works with the agency of the corona denier Stefan Magnet. As a transparency report by Google shows, the Linz FPÖ has made use of the services of the “relevant head of the extreme right” according to the documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance for election campaign videos. Between the “FPÖ and the right-wing extremist fringe” “no sheet of paper” fits, according to SP country manager Georg Brockmeyer.
The Chamber of Labor of Upper Austria used an online survey to find out what parents want from the state government. 1380 people completed the questionnaire. At the top of the list were the desire for more full-time childcare places, an end to parental contributions and a legal right to a childcare place.
