The municipal elections have been beaten and brought several sensations. Above all in Amstetten. Newcomer Christian Haber-hauer is celebrating a historic success there. He led the People’s Party to first place. In St. Pantaleon the VP won the absolute majority, there were also big gains in St. Georgen am Ybbsfelde (plus four mandates) or Aschbach (plus five mandates).
There are also communities in which there was a minus for turquoise, for example in Ernsthofen or Ferschnitz, but mostly the People’s Party was cheering.
“So far we have had 30 ÖVP communities out of 35 in the district. There will be two more in the future. The largest and the smallest municipality have been added: Amstetten and St. Georgen am Reith, ”said VP district manager Andreas Hanger on election evening.
The local council election had once again shown that the ÖVP was close to the people and the citizens in the district had honored that.
There were numerous setbacks for social democracy on Sunday. In addition to the bitter defeat in Amstetten, where the mayor’s office has probably been lost to the People’s Party, the SPÖ was unsuccessful in most rural communities. In Euratsfeld and Ferschnitz, for example, you only hold one mandate. In Ertl you fell out of the municipal council at all. One of the few positive exceptions for social democracy was Ennsdorf. The SPÖ and its team around Mayor Daniel Lachmayr grew there.
“Overall, of course, it’s a very sad day for social democracy. The loss of the city of Amstetten hurts a lot, ”says district chairwoman Ulrike Königsberger-Ludwig. Nor does she understand why the SPÖ in St. Georgen am Reith den
Mayor’s chair has lost. “Because Birgit Krifter did a really good job there and got a lot of projects going.”
Few bright spots for the SPÖ in the district
A bright spot is for the district chairwoman Ernsthofen, where the SPÖ has moved closer to the ÖVP, and of course Hollenstein, where mayor Manuela Zebenholzer won a clear absolute majority.
There was also little to laugh about on the election day for the freedom activists. Mostly there were losses, in Haag and Ferschnitz one flew from the municipal council. A total of 13 mandates were lost in the district.
However, where the FPÖ first came into being, it also made it into the municipal council: in Winklarn (one mandate), Zeillern (two mandates) and in Ertl (one mandate). In Blindenmarkt, the blue warehouse largely changed to Plan B of ex-FP Lower Austria club chairman Martin Huber. The new faction won five of the seven previous FP mandates, the rest went to the ÖVP. “It hurts my heart that the officials who have worked every day and are being punished by such a stupid expense campaign by HC Strache. We are now starting a voter recall campaign. Our goal is to be back where we were in 2015 in five years. Namely, to achieve the 47 mandates that we had in the district again ”, FP district chairwoman Edith Mühlberghuber took stock.
The Greens also gain
The Greens held their mandate in Amstetten and Euratsfeld. In Seitenstetten and St. Valentin each won a mandate, in Ybbsitz the votes increased. “We won everywhere in the district with the exception of Euratsfeld. The bottom line is a very positive result, I am also satisfied with the result in Amstetten, it was the second best result of the Greens in the city, ”analyzed district spokesman Dominic Hörlezeder.
There were mixed results for the citizen lists. The diversity list for Ferschnitz immediately managed seven mandates; on the other hand, young politician Benjamin Ripfl missed the move to the town council of St. Georgen / Ybbsfelde. The list for Haag increased massively, is again the second strongest force. The Enns-Donauwinkel civic list left the municipal council in Ennsdorf, but managed two mandates in St. Pantaleon when it first took office.
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