TIROLER TAGESZEITUNG, leading article: “Stadt, Land, Volkspartei”, by Peter Nindler
Edition from Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Innsbruck (OTS) – LH Günther Platter cannot use a political heap in Innsbruck in the middle of the corona pandemic. But as the head of the ÖVP, he looked too long to see how his black people in Innsbruck were drifting astray through city politics.
The double budget in Tyrol, endowed with 4.5 billion euros each, is a matter of form, after all, the SPÖ will also agree to the black-green state budget for 2022/2023. The turmoil in the provincial capital, on the other hand, is heavy in the stomach of the Tyrolean governor Günther Platter (VP). Because of the unstable political conditions, which he doesn’t need at all during the Corona crisis in the country. Because Innsbruck is the focal point in Tyrol when it comes to economy, education (universities), society, sport or culture.
On the other hand, the relationship between town and country has always been a difficult one, mainly because political jealousy was in charge within the ÖVP. It began with Governor Eduard Wallnöfer and Mayor Alois Lugger. In the early 1990s, the Innsbruck ÖVP finally imploded, after which the Tyrolean blacks lived the truce with the bourgeois two-company theory of city party and mayor list “For Innsbruck”. Until there was a final break between Platter and ex-mayor Christine Oppitz-Plörer (for Innsbruck). And to open hostility due to the chaos party “Vorwärts Tirol” founded by Oppitz-Plörer for the 2013 state election, but later blown up by herself.
Suddenly in 2018 there was Georg Willi, a green mayor, Oppitz-Plörer (Patscherkofel debacle) and the ÖVP had undoubtedly run down in the state capital. ÖVP state party leader Günther Platter did not succeed, however, in setting up the ailing city party. Just don’t offend and don’t interfere, was his motto. He is responsible for the political shambles with the free play of forces in Innsbruck, which only sounds good in theory. Because his city capitals have become the permanent appendages of his political archenemy Oppitz-Plörer. Once again, it is the cunning strategy that sets the political pace, regardless of losses, while at the same time playing its allies against the wall. In view of the approaching state elections, Platter does not need the ongoing vortex, instability and chaos in the state capital. The fact that he paid too little attention to Innsbruck is now his undoing. Too aggressive an intervention would expose the ÖVP leaders in the city, so it must remain with appeals for the ability to act and a return to common sense. There is no doubt that this is particularly aimed at the ÖVP. Because she could be the first to tear it up even without new elections.
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