Everyone has felt firsthand that times can change within a few moments. In politics, the half-life – i.e. the size that decreases over time – is measured in separate units anyway. Sebastian Kurz had to feel that too, who said when he withdrew from the Chancellor that he was only human in order to press on the lacrimal gland, which is out of place in politics.
Kurz then had to experience something deeply inhuman: that not everyone who was behind you the day before will continue to do so the next day, or only to make the decisive move into the abyss. True friends reveal themselves in times of crisis. But they rarely exist in politics. There is a reason why they say: enemy, archenemy, party friend.
But back to Tyrol: The short dismantling has far greater consequences than one would like to believe. Because 2022 could be a super election year for the Tyrolean population. The municipal council and mayoral elections on February 27 and the federal presidential elections in autumn are fixed. In May or June, the early state elections were planned – as it recently rang through the walkways of the country house – after black-green no longer looks harmonious even through rose-colored glasses. And suddenly the early election of the National Council hovers like a sword of Damocles over Tyrol.
The draft horse was lost
Only job optimists still believe that the federal coalition will last until 2024. What to do? It seems fixed that one wants to avoid early elections to the National Council by all means. Until recently, Sebastian Kurz was still the draft horse, whose pace many old-age ÖVP members also believed to feel renewed vigor, but for former “party friends” he is now a lame horse who does harm, actually to the slaughterhouse and “disposed of ” heard. Many fear that the “Causa Kurz” and whatever else might pop up there could have a negative impact on their “own” election results.
Lots of campaigning
Four ballots in one year are a no-go. But this is what the party strategists at the federal, but also at the state level, are struggling to find out about how to be well prepared for the election campaign. It goes without saying that factual politics once again takes a back seat. Because in election times it is only about one thing: Make a lot of promises that are ultimately not kept in order to do as well as possible – no matter what the cost.