"Must be acknowledged"

Doskozil: “The FPÖ has mobilized excellently”

Governor Hans Peter Doskozil takes a very sober view of his party's worst election result at federal level.

(Bild: APA/Helmut Fohringer)

The SPÖ was the only party represented in parliament to start working through the results of the National Council elections on Monday. The party presidium met in the morning and the executive committee will meet in the afternoon. Party leader Andreas Babler will then make a statement. Some party members from the federal provinces had already commented on the election results and were not sparing with their criticism. However, the tone from Burgenland was rather unusual.

Governor Hans Peter Doskozil greeted the journalists who had arrived with the following words: "Today you will not get what you probably came here for." There would be no critical words, the result on Sunday would first have to "sink in".

Now is the time for analysis. However, as a "democrat, you have to acknowledge that the Freedom Party mobilized better". "They mobilized excellently", which is why the FPÖ should be congratulated "with a certain amount of humility", Doskozil continued.

The governor emphasized that a "democratically elected" party that had won first place was entitled to the presidency of the National Council. There was also a little self-criticism. The strength of the Blue Party was mainly a "weakness of all other parties" - including the SPÖ.