Gerd Kurath leads SPÖ Velden in challenging times with a fresh team!

Gerd Kurath leads SPÖ Velden in challenging times with a fresh team!

Velden, Österreich - last night, at the municipal game meeting of the SPÖ Velden, Gerd Kurath was unanimously elected as the new party leader. The 48-year-old takes over the leadership of Manfred Heissenberger, who has not held the position since October. Kurath, who was already working as a chairman of the Personal Representation of the Carinthian state government, plans to control the SPÖ through the current crises. He deals in particular with topics such as inflation and the effects of artificial intelligence, which are important for the financial situation of the communities. In addition, he calls for greater support from the next federal government and the state of Carinthia, for example by increasing the second home tax and the local tax, to help the municipalities, such as the click/ "> Carinthia reported.

In the new leadership of the SPÖ Velden, Vice Mayor Markus Fantur as well as the municipal councils Manfred Kogler and Sandro Spendier, all of whom were confirmed in their functions as local party leader and deputy, will also play an important role. Kurath's goal is to continue the successful work of his predecessors and to fight for a fair distribution of funds. In his speech, Mayor Ferdinand Vouk emphasized that the municipalities should not be treated as a supplicant in terms of the urgent necessities for projects. Also Reinhold Rohr, President of the Landtag and SPÖ district party chairman, underlined the need for new solutions for the current social and economic challenges, such as the Zeitung continued.