SPÖ Leader Babler Would Not Be Happy with Blue-Red After Styria Election
He does not have the right to intervene, as SPÖ leader Andreas Babler emphasized in the "Kronen Zeitung" (Wednesday edition). Thus, he will "take note of the political decision-making". Former SPÖ Chancellor Franz Vranitzky told the "Standard" that federal state parties should decide autonomously about their government alliances.
He had held this opinion before as well. Vranitzky is the namesake of the Vranitzky Doctrine, according to which the SPÖ does not form a coalition with the FPÖ. "Much of what was then, in 1986, is no longer applicable today," he stressed. "The political prerequisites were completely different." At that time, the SPÖ had a sufficient majority and it was about Jörg Haider, who "did not sufficiently distance himself from National Socialist ideology."
SPÖ Styria Wants to Negotiate with FPÖ about Blue-Red Coalition
The Styrian Social Democrats fell to third place in the state election on Sunday. Subsequently, they decided, like the ÖVP, to accept the Freedom Party's offer to form a state government. It would be the first blue-red coalition in Styria.
(APA/Red)
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