Elephant round

Top candidates in a big exchange of blows

Werner Kogler, Karl Nehammer, Andreas Babler and Beate Meinl-Reisinger met in the Puls-24 studio.

(Bild: Imre Antal)

One week before the National Council elections, the leading candidates of the parliamentary parties met in the "Krone" elephant round in the Puls-24 studio. A brand-new survey, which the parties were only confronted with shortly before the meeting, promised to be particularly explosive even beforehand. In the end, two candidates were convincing ...

Who can get along with whom, who doesn't want to get along with whom? One week before the election, Klaus Herrmann, managing editor-in-chief of the "Krone", and Manuela Raidl from Puls 4 put the top candidates to the test in a large round.

"We throw money at every problem in Austria", NEOS leader Beate Meinl-Reisinger accused the government - and SPÖ leader Andreas Babler stated the following about overcoming the crises and inflation: "It's been five lost years." Vice-Chancellor Werner Kogler (Greens) became emotional on the subject of asylum: "Islamism in the nursery? You have to drive right into it!" "It's nice to see that the SPÖ is ending the class war and sees that we are all - farmers, entrepreneurs, employees - in the same boat," said Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) conciliatory towards Babler.

The large live poll, in which 15,000 viewers took part, showed two winners in the end: Nehammer was able to convince the respondents the most, NEOS leader Meinl-Reisinger also did well.

With the krone.at live ticker you were there throughout the evening - here you can read about the best moments:

An overview of the TV duels so far:

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