Green Party to Decide on New Leadership on June 29 at Messe Wien
The current federal spokesperson for the Greens, Werner Kogler, has already announced that he will step down from the party leadership and will not run again. According to APA information, former Climate Protection Minister Leonore Gewessler is considered the favorite to succeed him.
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She herself remains cautious about a candidacy: "We have many good people among us Greens and will make a decision together in the usual manner when the time is right," Gewessler stated in response to an APA inquiry. As much as the former Climate Protection Minister and now Deputy Club Chairwoman was able to provoke the political competition, she is equally popular within the party itself. For example, last summer she was celebrated with standing ovations by her own supporters for her approval of the EU renaturation law against the will of the coalition partner ÖVP, which triggered a veritable coalition crisis.
At the party congress at the end of June, 265 delegates are called upon to elect a new federal spokesperson for the next three years. The application period begins eight weeks before the federal congress, on May 4, and ends four weeks before it on June 1, according to the Greens. In addition to the new party leader of the opposition party, six members of the federal board will also be newly elected. This includes the federal finance officer and five other federal board members, who will also be elected for a term of three years.
Kogler took over the party after the debacle in the national election in the fall of 2017 and led the Greens into a federal government for the first time in 2020. At his first formal election as federal spokesperson, Kogler received 99.02 percent of the delegate votes at the federal congress in the fall of 2018, and in his last election in the spring of 2022, he received 96.41 percent approval (each time without an opposing candidate). The national election in 2024 with Kogler at the helm brought the Greens 8.24 percent, a decrease of 5.66 percentage points.
(APA/Red)
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