Survey: Good image values for Doskozil in the fight for SPÖ leadership

2023-04-30 07:03:00

According to the current APA/ATV “Austria trend” by opinion researcher Peter Hajek, he is clearly ahead of his internal and non-party competitors in three of the four most important characteristics (trust, understanding, future, assertiveness). Pamela Rendi-Wagner can stand up to him in the “trustworthy” category. Andreas Babler struggles with not being well known. Every second person would not or cannot give any information about him. Baber scores particularly well with “understands people’s worries and needs,” according to Hajek. What is striking for him is that FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl is well positioned in three areas – except for trustworthy, which could still be a stumbling block in an election campaign for the Federal Chancellery – and in three out of four cases he is ahead of Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP). lies. Nehammer’s profile is currently not contoured enough.

Specifically, 54 percent of the 800 respondents (target group of Austrians eligible to vote, surveyed online and by telephone from April 24 to 27, maximum fluctuation range +/- 3.5 percent) consider Doskozil to be very or fairly assertive. Kickl comes here at 48 percent, Nehammer at 42, and far behind them are Rendi-Wagner and Babler with 20 percent each.

For the item “trustworthy”, Rendi-Wagner is ahead with 44 percent, ahead of Doskozil with 41, Nehammer with 38, and Kickl and Babeler with 25 each. According to the survey, Doskozil understands the “worries and needs of the people” best (49 percent), behind them are Rendi-Wagner (42), Kickl (38), Babeler (30) and Nehammer (27). According to the survey, Doskozil also places the greatest emphasis on the right future topics, at 44 percent (Kickl and Rendi-Wagner: 33, Nehammer: 27, Babeler: 25).

In the fictional chancellor question among the current leaders of the parliamentary parties, Nehammer is slowly gaining ground again, while Rendi-Wagner is also falling behind Herbert Kickl. According to Hajek, this trend has been going on for several months. Nehammer currently has 32 percent here (December 2022: 30), Kickl 28 (25), Rendi-Wagner 20 (22), Green leader and Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler 11 (10) and NEOS chairwoman Beate Meinl-Reisinger to 9 percent after December 12.