2023-04-25 04:34:53
At the meeting on Monday evening, the party committee of the Salzburg SPÖ also determined the negotiating team for the exploratory talks with the ÖVP, which start on Wednesday.
David Egger had already emphasized on the evening of the election that he wanted to remain party chairman in Salzburg. However, he put his post up for grabs – asking the question of confidence is a common procedure in the SPÖ in the event of losses. At the same time, the party committee officially decided on the negotiating team for the exploratory talks with the ÖVP next Wednesday.
In addition to David Egger, the Salzburg AK President Peter Eder, the club chairman in the state parliament, Michael Wanner, and the managing director of the SPÖ state parliament club, Dagmar Karl, will go into the preliminary negotiations. “We are looking forward to the exploratory round and constructive talks. We said in advance that we are ready to take responsibility for the federal state,” emphasized Egger.
Together with the state parliament club and experts, he has spent a lot of time over the past few weeks and months ensuring that the party can contribute to possible coalition talks with constructive proposals for solutions. Be it the fight against expensive housing prices, climate protection or market failure, as Egger sees it at Salzburg AG. The state energy supplier was criticized in the election campaign for electricity price increases. In terms of content, however, he would not make any wishes or demands to ÖVP Governor Wilfried Haslauer before the exploratory talks, said Egger. “That would not be my political style.”
At the party executive on Monday evening, the election defeat on Sunday was analyzed with the help of a pollster. “A minus is a minus,” said Egger. “You can’t sugarcoat that. We will professionally work through where mistakes have been made and what needs to be done better in the future. The aim is for the SPÖ to become stronger again. This also includes a proper error analysis.” The SPÖ had lost 2.2 percentage points in Salzburg, achieved its worst result in history at 17.9 percent and was only third behind the FPÖ for the first time.
Like Egger, his deputy in the party, Peter Eder, is convinced that there will be talks on an equal footing with the ÖVP. “Several forces need to join forces to solve the current problems,” emphasized the AK President. “We have a problem with housing, one with care, we see the problems in education and elementary education and in traffic. There is a lot to do.” But one must see with whom Haslauer would like to enter into closer negotiations after the exploratory talks.
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