2024-03-16 09:06:25
A few weeks before the local council and mayoral elections, the Innsbruck People’s Party has a problem that only they can solve. Similar challenges already existed in the 1990s.
Never trust a survey that you didn’t make up or fake. This statement is particularly popular in pre-election times. This also means: Depending on how a survey turns out, whether you like it or not, it is considered to have significant significance or it ends up as a flyweight in the round binder next to your desk or, nowadays, in the wastebasket of the email program. Surveys saw FPÖ aheadThe “Tiroler Krone” commissioned a survey on the municipal and mayoral elections in Innsbruck in January. With a sample of 800 participants, which now corresponds to the standard for seriousness. The results were impressive. The reunification “The New Innsbruck” (consisting of For Innsbruck, ÖVP and the Senior Citizens’ Association) did rather poorly, while the “Yes – Now Innsbruck” group that split off from the ÖVP did surprisingly well. The Freedom Party was ahead, followed by the Greens. Particularly for some backbenchers in the Innsbruck ÖVP, surveys that do not provide the “right results” seem to be a thorn in the side. So that they obviously try to ridicule the results when the opportunity arises. Which is of course legitimate. Because – see above – it is all too human that only surveys that mean well for you are valid. Mirror, mirror on the wallSpission 30 years agoBut perhaps that is exactly the problem of the Innsbruck VP. Namely, that at some point it “stopped”. Since then, she has been wandering the streets of Innsbruck, out of touch with reality and sulking when she loses in elections. Maybe it’s been that way since the spinoff in 1994, exactly 30 years ago. At that time, a politically little-known double doctor named Herwig van Staa had had enough of the old ÖVP under Mayor Romuald Niescher. He founded the “For Innsbruck” list. Yellow was their color at the presentation. They were belittled and laughed at as “canaries”. By election evening at the latest, these “birds” were chirping songs of joy after receiving almost 23 percent support. The ÖVP fell to 18 percent in free flight. The blacks wore mourning. “Obervogel” Van Staa was in the mayoral chain for eight years – before he became state governor in 2002. The Innsbruck VP may now have a feeling of déjà vu because parallels to 1994 are emerging. What was Van Staa back then could be Johannes Anzengruber this time with “Yes – Now Innsbruck”. Maybe people will sulk again instead of finally starting to do less aloof politics and questioning themselves without taboos.
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