"Krone" comment

Unfortunately not

Letter to "Krone" readers: Klaus Herrmann, Managing Editor-in-Chief

(Bild: Krone KREATIV/stock.adobe.com)

A hot midsummer week in Austria - are politicians also taking a siesta? No, or, many will say: unfortunately not.

And so we experienced a Federal President who tried to talk the Austrians into their conscience via the opening of the Salzburg Festival. We witnessed a Federal Chancellor Karl Nehammer at the Olympic Games in Paris and at home, where after four and a half years in government with the Greens he completely rejected their infrastructure policy....

We experienced an SPÖ in which a lot of energy is being invested in discussing a post-election future without party leader Andreas Babler.

We saw an FPÖ that is already thinking about ministerial candidates while it continues to sideline its former party leader Norbert Hofer.

And we see in the "Krone" exactly two months before the national elections how Austrians would vote if they could do so now - see the report on krone.at: the FPÖ still in the lead, but the ÖVP with a chance of first place as well as a drop to third place.

Almost anything (except first place for the SPÖ) is therefore possible at the top. As a result, politics unfortunately won't leave us in peace even in the hot summer - after all, almost everything is at stake for them.

Have a nice Sunday with your "Krone"!