“On April 23, the question is who should lead Salzburg into the future as governor in difficult times,” said Haslauer on Sunday evening. “But it’s no secret that the current situation is anything but simple,” he said in a statement.

Haslauer paid tribute to his party colleague and counterpart in Lower Austria, Johanna Mikl-Leitner. “Despite difficult omens, we were able to maintain the number one position, albeit with clear cutbacks,” said the Salzburg governor.

SPÖ disappointed by Lower Austrian result

Salzburg’s SPÖ boss David Egger was disappointed with the performance of Franz Schnabl and his team. “Unfortunately, unfortunately, it has not been possible to convert the loss of confidence in the ÖVP into an increase in votes for social democracy,” said Egger. One should ask oneself why the SPÖ did not get through with their issues.

But Egger was also able to gain something positive from the Lower Austria result: the conservative omnipotence had been broken. “The loss of the absolute ÖVP majority will do Lower Austria good.” In the prospect of the Salzburg state elections on April 23, Egger said: “We are well prepared and have had a lot of encouragement for a long time.” From a personnel debate about federal party chairwoman Pamela Rendi-Wagner he didn’t think anything today.

Svazek: “Are on the way to becoming a better people’s party”

The state chairman of the FPÖ, Marlene Svazek, was happy about the “sensational result”, as she says. “The supremacy of the ÖVP is crumbling. We Liberals are on the way to becoming a real and better people’s party,” she said in the evening. The knots of the “degenerate, black power monopoly in Lower Austria” are now slowly being untied, state by state. What happened after Tirol on Sunday was just the beginning of a movement.

In what is expected to be the upcoming election in Salzburg, Svazek said: “Now everything is possible.” Depending on the weather, the comrades would have to decide quickly every day whether they were more on the Doskozil line or not more on the Rendi-Wagner line.

Green and Neos are satisfied

The Greens spokeswoman Martina Berthold congratulated the Lower Austrian sister party: “With their climate focus, the Greens in Lower Austria were able to gain a mandate and regain club status”, which also provides tailwind for the upcoming Salzburg elections. “With Salzburger Wasser, Salzburger Wind and Salzburger Sonne we have all the ingredients for the energy turnaround in our federal state,” stressed Berthold.

The provincial spokeswoman for NEOS Salzburg, Andrea Klambauer, was also pleased with the growth of the pinks in Lower Austria. At the same time, the power system of the ÖVP was voted out. “The strong FPÖ growth is worrying, the hypocrisy of the Freedom Party to work for the citizens makes me angry.” The lack of demarcation between the large and old parties – due to purely toxic tactics – is partly responsible for this result. “I see it as my job to appeal to the ÖVP and SPÖ in Salzburg that the FPÖ cannot be an option.”