The first head of state is now making a power cut announcement – Salzburg
Despite more intensive preparations, power cuts cannot be ruled out, according to Governor Wilfried Haslauer.
Salzburg’s governor has one Wilfried Haslauer ahead of other top politicians: he takes care of the Christmas presents himself and has taken half a day off to do so. Cooking works against his wife. “If I were to cook, it wouldn’t be such a nice Christmas, I think,” he told the “Salzburger Nachrichten” in an interview.
After the holidays, the Haslauer household will probably start to get busy quite abruptly, because the elections will be held on April 23rd. The current government of ÖVP, Greens and NEOS is shaking, the alliance is expected to only get 52 percent in current polls. The SPÖ under David Egger meanwhile indicated that he also wanted to form a coalition with the FPÖ if necessary.
blackout danger
Haslauer trusted the “SN” to be able to judge whether the country had been well managed in recent years. “I don’t want to express our election goal as a percentage, but of course it’s the case that we clearly want to be number one. And as a negative demarcation, the goal is not to allow a majority of SPÖ and FPÖ to come about as a result of the result.”
In order to win the trust of the population, the state of Salzburg made provisions for the energy crisis early on, launched broad information and precautionary campaigns as well as austerity measures on the subject of blackouts – “Today” reported. The situation is looking a little better at the moment, says Haslauer, because the French nuclear power plants are increasingly going online again.
Corruption box in Vienna
Basically, he is now rather optimistic again, he replies to the “Salzburger Nachrichten” when asked about imminent power cuts. “But we can’t rule it out.” Nevertheless, one prepares intensively for how one can proceed in the case of the case.
On the other hand, he was at a loss as to why the image of the federal government was so bad despite the many support measures. At the federal level, the ÖVP is only scratching the 20 percent mark. “This whole case of corruption has severely damaged the ÖVP brand. We definitely don’t have any tailwind from Vienna, but there have always been times like this,” summarizes Haslauer. Nehammer still does his job well.