Current politics

Pamela Rendi-Wagner and the black-red love affair

Ex-SPÖ leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner is pleased to have the support of Constitutional and European Affairs Minister Karoline Edtstadler and Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg. Both ÖVP grandees are said to have ambitions for Brussels.

(Bild: APA/ROLAND SCHLAGER, APA/GEORG HOCHMUTH, APA/EVA MANHART, Krone KREATIV)

It is not only the ex-SPÖ leader who is supported by ÖVP departments. There may also be power-political reasons for the rapprochement between the coalition parties.

They are two different political worlds. On the one hand, there are triumphant SPÖ reactions to the non-appealable conviction of Sebastian Kurz on one of three charges of making a false statement in the U Committee. On the other hand, ÖVP government members are making enthusiastic announcements following the appointment of former SPÖ leader and ex-Health Minister Pamela Rendi-Wagner as head of an EU health authority in Stockholm. All this within a few days of each other.