Christian Stocker: The turning chancellor – Diepresse.com
With Christian Stocker, the Republic receives a Chancellor who was never intended as such.
The 64-year-old radiates order, calm and stability-consensual like the grand coalitioner of that time.
But is he secretly just a temporary solution?
« It's time to do the right thing. » The slogan, which was chosen for Christian Stocker's chancellorship, underlines the adjectives that are circulating about him by party colleagues these days: solid, prudent, calm, are the flattery. « A lawyer who can do, » jokes a rank -high negotiator of the triple coalition. “Stocker is a craftsman of power, the radiance of an (ex-chancellor, note) Sebastian Kurz goes off completely. But in contrast to this, he is also not a blender, ”writes the“New Zürcher Zeitung“These days about him.
On Monday he is expected to be a ninth Chancellor in ten years. He radiates calm and order. Chancellor profile would probably only have attested a few. Nevertheless, he may be what the Republic can urgently use. And what politics, also that within the ÖVP, has not delivered in recent years.
Anyone who has experienced Stocker in parliament so far knows their unexcited, sometimes colorless appearance. He has been there since 2019. In the ÖVP-U Committee, he exchanged it against that as a glowing advocate of the party; as a general secretary against the Herbert-Kickl-Mahner, who is more compatible. In mighty party circles, he is now sprinkled roses for his negotiating skills and perseverance in the past few weeks. It is strange that he would one day be a chancellor who actually limited his political career at the municipal level. He has been the vice mayor of Wiener Neustadt since 2000. The career jump in the Chancellery at 64 is still difficult to believe in its environment. The case, the members of the Neos are waving the pact through this Sunday.
