The 65-year-old general practitioner confirmed a corresponding report in the “Vorarlberger Nachrichten” on Monday morning. Sprickler-Falschlunger had already acted as state party leader between autumn 2016 and spring 2018, now she jumps into the breach again as a compromise candidate: “I have an intact relationship with everyone,” she said.
According to her, a two-thirds majority of the delegates present are required for Sprickler-Falschlunger to be able to take part at the party congress on the following Saturday (October 16). Your task as party leader will be the same as the first time – namely to find a suitable personality for her successor, who will also run as the top candidate in the state elections in 2024. In this regard, however, there are still talks to be held in the party executive, said Sprickler-Falschlunger.
In the Vorarlberg SP, a power struggle has been raging for weeks to succeed the current party leader Martin Staudinger. The club chairman Thomas Hopfner, brought into play by Staudinger – without consultation with the party – was not well received by the largest Vorarlberg SP local organizations, and there was also an “Abhr affair”, which could also have legal consequences. Last week, the party presented four candidates for the party congress: In addition to Hopfner (56), Alp Sanlialp (24), Robert Bedjanic (46) and Angelika Mayr (37) wanted to run for party chairmanship.
