NEOS leader Meinl-Reisinger writes a letter to ÖVP voters

2024-09-13 21:52:00

VIENNA. Beate Meinl-Reisinger, the leader of NEOS, is resorting to unconventional methods before the national elections on September 29: In a letter sent to “supporters of the Austrian People’s Party,” NEOS is campaigning strongly for the candidate to go into the government, APA reports. “If you are one of the many ÖVP supporters who do not want a new FPÖ Ibiza coalition, I ask you to express your opinion clearly on the events around you,” Neos wrote in the letter.

Neos has been campaigning more aggressively for some time now to join the coalition government after 29 September. Although Neos leader Beate Meinl-Reisinger wrote that only a “reformed government with a strong centre” could deal with the “problems burning like a hot potato in the country” and implement “promises that have not been fulfilled in recent years”, she too. against ÖVP-FPÖ new coalition warns. Meinl-Reisinger makes no reference in this letter to the SPÖ, which according to the current opinion polls will need a majority alongside the ÖVP and Neos.

NEOS headquarters also know that a new version of the “ÖVP FPÖ Ibiza coalition” was rejected among ÖVP voters. According to polling data available to Neos, 46 percent of ÖVP voters are “very” against the ÖVP-FPÖ coalition, and 25 percent are “quite a lot” against it. ÖVP voters’ approval of a three-party coalition with Neos and SPÖ relatively high at 50 percent NEOS apparently wrote this letter to attract ÖVP voters to form a coalition of ÖVP, SPÖ and NEOS after the elections on September 29.

KPÖ “very strong” in second wave posters

Two weeks before the elections, the Communist Party of Austria, known as KPÖ for short, introduced its second wave of posters last Friday. There is a renewed focus on affordable housing, with slogans such as “Social policy is half the battle” and “A strong measure for affordable housing.” In a press release, the leading candidate of the Communist Party, Tobias Schweiger, criticized the dramatic increase in prices for not being serious. Second-in-charge and intensive care nurse Bettina Prochaska, who also appears on one of the new posters, argued for improvements for carers by reducing working hours across the board, recognizing care as hard work and paying wages good for the training. step forward.