New state parliament: Evelyn Achhorner proposed as LT Vice President
At the constitutive session of the new state parliament on 25.10. the FPÖ will propose LA Evelyn Achhorner as state vice president. “In other federal states and in the National Council, it is quite normal for the presidency to be filled according to the strength of the parties. This should finally be built up in Tyrol,” party chairman LA Markus Abwerzger and LA Evelyn and Achhorner explain in unison.
INNSBRUCK. The Innsbruck architect has been a member of the Tyrolean state parliament since 2018. Your balance sheet in the past parliamentary period: balance sheet work in the state parliament, 254 applications, 30 written and 2 oral questions, as well as 20 applications for deadlines. Achhorner was active in five state parliament committees and was nominated as a substitute member in five committees. Achhorner is also a sworn substitute councilor in Innsbruck. Abwerzger appeals to the likely coalition party SPÖ to vote for a liberal candidate. Subsequently, this group, which was formerly the second strongest group and was in the opposition at the time, also nominated a candidate in Elisabeth Blanik.
duel continues
Despite the fact that his party WILL end up on the opposition bench in the coming legislature, Abwerzger is sticking to his goal of becoming governor.
“I have not given up the desire to become governor”, explains Abwerzger. The “duel over Tyrol” against the ÖVP, which he proclaimed before the state elections, will continue, and in the 2027 election they want to further reduce the gap.
The FP had gained more than three percentage points in the state elections on September 25 and for the first time ended up in second place behind the ÖVP with 18.84 percent. However, they are prevented from participating in the government because ÖVP state party chairman Anton Mattle ruled out a coalition with the FPÖ from the outset.
The glorious eight of the new state government, Innsbruck district papers
discrimination
A circumstance that still makes Abwerzger shake his head and causes incomprehension. “Mattle is discriminating against 19 percent of Tyrolean voters because of purely personal animosity,” the FPÖ chairman sharply attacked the black frontman. If the ÖVP leader is manifesting the “shift to the left” in the People’s Party, then complicated and socio-political ideas would have played a role and at the same time Mattle would not be able to cope with the attitude of the FPÖ, for example in terms of asylum and Corona.
News from the city politics in the political ticker of the district newspapers Innsbruck
opposition
For the coming legislative period, Abwerzger, who was again unanimously elected club chairman, sees the Freedom Party as the decisive force in the opposition. With seven mandates, they are striving for “opposition leadership” and now have many more instruments at their disposal due to their own strength. For example, around ten MPs could apply for a committee of inquiry, and together with the Fritz list, which has three mandates, this number can already be reached, the FPÖ chairman reminded. There will also be more special sessions of the state parliament, for which ten mandataries are also needed. Abwerzger repeatedly emphasizes the good cooperation with Liste Fritz.
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