According to the VP, an event agency wants to reward Turkish people who will vote for the upcoming Sunday SP and give a certain candidate a preferential vote in Linz with free admission to a concert.
“With this action, the SP has clearly crossed the line of serious election advertising,” said VP Deputy Mayor Bernhard Baier. The agency denied.
Instagram photos as “receipt”
The VP sees two Instagram photos from the event agency as “evidence” of the alleged SP campaign. On it are voting slips from two alleged postal voters, on which the SP was ticked. Organizer Marcel Sterbik denied in an interview with the APA that only SP voters were given preference. Rather, the action he initiated is intended as a motivation for the Turkish community in Linz to “make use of the right to vote”. Which party is given the vote is irrelevant for a free ticket. He also pointed out that this “is not an action by a campaigning group or a candidate”.
