When you will enter into coalition negotiations is still open, as well as with whom you would most like to do so. Governor Thomas Stelzer, however, struck the pandemic fight, the industrial location and climate protection as pegs in terms of content.
The negotiating team of the ÖVP is made up of Stelzer, LHStv. Christine Haberlander, the regional councilors Markus Achleitner and Max Hiegelsberger, Hattmannsdorfer and club chairman Christian Dörfel. Hattmannsdorfer did not want to talk about preferences or red lines in a press conference on Tuesday lunchtime. He also left it open whether there would be a settlement decision or not – a waiver of this decision could give the ÖVP an additional – fifth – seat of government or cost the SPÖ one. Hattmannsdorfer is also rumored for this additional ÖVP state council post, which he did not want to comment either.
Stelzer did not take part in the press conference after the state party executive, but let it be known via press release: “Of course, it is important that we continue to get through the ongoing coronavirus crisis. But it will also depend on strengthening and strengthening Upper Austria as a business location to consolidate “, but also” we need a partner who also supports the necessary measures in terms of climate protection in order to further expand our pioneering role in the area of climate change and to counteract climate change, “he outlined his priorities.
Hattmannsdorfer is satisfied with the election result. The ÖVP increased by 1.24 percentage points to 37.6 percent, but started from an all-time low. Nevertheless: “The electoral goal of being a strong number one was achieved,” said Hattmannsdorfer, the distance to the second has tripled, so there is a clear voting mandate. The “top election motive” was the top candidate. 128,227 preferential votes were cast for Stelzer, which is the highest quota of preferential votes in Germany, according to the state manager. During the election campaign, the ÖVP relied heavily on this election motive and ran a preferential vote campaign for Stelzer. The election result of Graz and that of Germany was “nothing more than the translation that settled with established parties”, says Hattmannsdorfer, in Upper Austria, however, the ÖVP had managed to achieve a plus, he emphasized again.
