"Krone" commentary

Loss of confidence

Commentary on the major issues affecting Austria: Klaus Herrmann, Managing Editor-in-Chief

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Only one woman and three men in the plus, another at zero, all others in the minus. The trust of Austrians in their politicians is, if the adjacent APA-OGM trust index can be trusted, in the basement.

A total of 26 politicians were relegated to the basement of trust by the respondents, with mistrust outweighing trust.

For some of them, the negative values are hardly surprising - the unique campaign against 23-year-old Lena Schilling, for example, is having an effect, and it is hardly surprising that it is plummeting. Will those from the green-left bubble who have fanned the flames and continue to do so now rejoice?

Of course, there is no reason for anyone to cheer. Not for Schilling's competitors in the EU elections, who are all doing badly, not for the leading candidates in the National Council elections. Nehammer, Babler, Kickl: minus men. Karoline Edtstadler, often referred to as the Nehammer alternative in the ÖVP: Minus woman.

Werner Kogler, the Green Vice-Chancellor, is just ahead of Chancellor Nehammer, but in another poll the Greens - as reported - are plummeting in the EU and National Council elections.

The joke? Behind Federal President Van der Bellen and the red evergreen Doris Bures, Martin Kocher and Johannes Rauch are the only two ministers who are considered to be fixed dropouts from politics after the elections to land in the trust plus area.

Trust remains the biggest loser these days.