Blue wave levels off in the Styrian communities – diepresse.com
In most of its 199 communities, the ÖVP will remain first. Meanwhile, the FPÖ must continue to wait for its first mayor. She cannot repeat her landslide success in the state election in the municipalities.
Vienna/Graz. The green mark remains de facto black, at least in the municipal offices. As in the neighboring federal states of Salzburg, Upper and Lower Austria, the ÖVP is also considered in Styria the « Mayor party ». You will remain that even after the municipal elections on Sunday. In 199 out of 284 municipalities, the ÖVP ruled before Sunday, at the time of going to press, it looks like that it will be able to defend most. Overall, however, the ÖVP and SPÖ sometimes lose massively to the FPÖ, which often increases significantly, but cannot show a sensational run.
The ÖVP loses 3.5 percentage points, and its absolute majority in seven communities in Graz environment. For this she can cheer in Bad Mitterndorf, which was colored dark blue in the state election (42.1 percent), for a surprise victory: with 41.2 percent, she prevails against Mayor Veronika Grill (SPÖ) (39.4 percent).
At the SPÖ, the minus turns out even more clearly: upgrading you lose 4.1 percentage points. In the home community of SPÖ state party leader Max Lercherin St. Peter am Kammersberg, she slips to third place. In the SPÖ strongholds Bruck on the Mur, Leoben, Leibnitz, Deutschlandsberg and Mürzzuschlag, their absolute majority does not hold.
FPÖ scares just over
In the blue, after the National Council election, in which Styria chose most clearly blue, as well as the election success of Mario Kunasek At the end of November, justified hopes made to continue surfing the blue wave. These hopes have not been fulfilled for the time being. She could not « turn » a Styrian community, so it never reached first place.
The FPÖ must continue to wait for the first mayor in Styria. In St. Michael, she rank extremely narrowly in St. Michael: With 36.4 percent, she only stays just behind the SPÖ, which allows all of her voice loss to the FPÖ (minus 26.7 percent). With 37.4 percent, however, the Reds remain with a lead of one percentage point.
The blue result in the communities in Upper Styria is exciting, which was colored blue as a result of the debate about the lead hospital in the state election in November. In no Styrian community, the FPÖ was recently able to grow as strongly as in Rottenmann, where the blue ones have not even been in the local council. In the state election in November, 63 percent of the 2000 inhabitants voted for the FPÖ under Mario Kunasek.
But the municipal council election shows a different picture: Although the ÖVP (minus 8.4 percentage points) loses strong in Rottenmann this time again, but at 40.1 percent still creates first place before the SPÖ, which comes with an increase of around six percent to 36.9 percent. The FPÖ increases a lot and comes to 7.8 percent. The governor party is far from one chance of the mayor job.
Pinkes Ramsau am Dachstein
The NEOS in turn made a sensation in Ramsau (district of Liezen): After the dominant list of Ernst Fischbacher has no longer started, the pinks reach 34.5 percent and second place behind the ÖVP with 39.9 percent. Most of the Greens achieve results in their communities similar to the last election 2020. In Graz environment, however, they fly from the local council both in Gössendorf and in Kalsdorf.
Formally, the mayor cannot be selected in Styria, such as in Vienna and Vorarlberg. This option is to be checked for the future, but currently – comparable to the state election – the list of lists applies: Around 805,000 voters gave their voice of a list on Sunday. The strongest then proposes the local council a candidate for mayor who votes about it.
