SPÖ leader Rendi-Wagner is controversial within her party (archive image). (imago images / Eibner Europe)
The head of government of Burgenland, Doskozil, announced yesterday that he wanted to apply for the presidency of the SPÖ. He advocated that a member survey should decide on the personnel. However, he rejected a vote at a special party conference. As the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” writes, Doskozil focuses on traditional left-wing issues in social and economic policy, but on security and migration on strictness and restrictions.
The incumbent party leader of the Social Democrats in Austria, Rendi-Wagner, came under increasing pressure after the SPÖ lost votes in the last state elections. In Carinthia it was recently a minus of nine percentage points.
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