2023-05-06 05:25:20
After the electoral success in Salzburg, the KPÖ is also gaining ground in Lower Austria. Now a network of local groups is to be set up with the aim of a nationwide candidacy for the state parliament.
Dawn under the sign of the hammer and sickle – this is how the status quo of the KPÖ in Lower Austria can be aptly described. “After the elections in Salzburg, there are currently many inquiries from people who want to become active,” says Christiane Maringer. The state spokeswoman for the communists also knows where the left wind is blowing from: “Where we are there for the people in local politics, there are also successes in regional elections.” As just recently in Salzburg. And on January 29th of this year in Fischamend. In the city in the district of Bruck an der Leitha, the KPÖ – completely unnoticed by the general public – got 6.1 percent of the votes in the Lower Austria state elections. Almost 300 active in local groups However: Communists in community rooms between Enns and Leitha are still limited the state party leader has to admit: “There are only about 300 active people in local groups.” Maringer himself joined the KPÖ after a peace demonstration in the mid-1980s: “Because I realized that without socially just politics, there would be no There is peace,” the 58-year-old explains her left list. Which she once never denied during her years as a city councilor in Purkersdorf. Programmatically, Maringer wants to focus on inflation, housing costs and social security. In addition, new local groups are to be founded across the country: “So that we can compete in the next state election not just in four, but in all districts of Lower Austria.”
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