55 percent of voters voted for their mayor, who is charged with rape. The defeated SPÖ top candidate says: “Sexism is a foreign word in the saddle.”
Last Sunday, 55.4 percent (806 votes) of the community citizens of Scharten in the Eferding district voted for the incumbent mayor Jürgen Höckner (ÖVP) in the direct election. Whether the 55-year-old will be able to exercise his political office for the entire legislative period will be decided next Monday in the Wels regional court: There the local chief stands before the criminal judge on suspicion of rape of the former head of department.
A handkerchief, in particular, on which his sperm and vaginal secretions were found, is a heavy burden on the politician. Höckner has …
Accessed on 27.09.2021 at 05:05 on https://www.sn.at/panorama/oesterreich/wiedergewaehlter-buergermeister-von-scharten-am-montag-vor-dem-strafrichter-110077072