After Nehammer Resignation: ÖVP Elects New Club Chief
August Wöginger, who has been the acting ÖVP club chairman since the election, was unanimously elected to the top of the club on Tuesday.
Jachs Takes Over Nehammer's Seat in the National Council
Nehammer's mandate in the National Council is indirectly passed on to Johanna Jachs. The 33-year-old lawyer has already sat in Parliament from 2017 until the National Council election last year. Technically, Jachs enters the National Council through a regional electoral district mandate from Upper Austria. State Secretary Claudia Plakolm gives up this mandate and takes over Nehammer's seat from the federal list. The quasi loser is Irene Neumann-Hartberger. She would have received the mandate if the People's Party had simply taken the next person on the federal list. However, since the seat of the designated Salzburg Governor Karoline Edtstadler will also become vacant in the foreseeable future, it should still be possible for the Lower Austrian to return to the High House. With a successful formation of government, one or two changes could then still occur. This would open up opportunities for the former education spokesman Rudolf Taschner and the new Secretary General Alexander Pröll.
(APA/Red)
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