Florian Tursky: Innsbruck's new hope of the People's Party!

Florian Tursky: Innsbruck's new hope of the People's Party!

Innsbruck, Österreich - The former Digitization Secretary Florian Tursky has made a remarkable change of career. In the future, the 36-year-old will take over the management of the "Vodafone Institute Europe", an in-house thought factory of the British telecommunications company. As OE24 started his new position on February 1st and will mainly commute between Germany and Switzerland. During his political career, he had been State Secretary since May 2022 and ran as mayor of Innsbruck in April 2023, but this was not successful. Most recently, he was active in the election campaign of the ÖVP at the federal level.

new role as a city party chairman

At the same time, Tursky was elected as the new chairman of the Innsbruck ÖVP on Friday evening with 91.9 percent of the vote. This election took place during the city party congress after his predecessor Christoph Appler had waived a renewed candidacy to make room for the new hope. Tursky appealed to the delegates to demonstrate unity in the bourgeois camp in order to push the green mayor Georg Willi out of office next April, such as Kleine Zeitung reported. He is convinced that a stronger bourgeois unit is necessary to gain the elections and give instructions for better urban development, including topics such as more green areas and childcare.

TURSKY, a local hero of the ÖVP, was able to convince the delegates with his speech and was warmly welcomed by young to old. He demands creative and new solutions to implement the concerns of the Innsbruck citizens and is determined to reunite the bourgeois camp. He makes it clear to his colleagues: "We live in a student city" and calls for changes in the living situation. This new responsibility as a city party chairman could prove to be important for Tursky, while at the same time mastering his new professional challenge at Vodafone.