Million damage after election campaign: cost explosion in Innsbruck!

Million damage after election campaign: cost explosion in Innsbruck!

In the Innsbruck election campaign, the alliance "Das Neue Innsbruck" under the former Digitization State Secretary Florian Tursky exceeded the self -expenses of 690,000 euros with shocking 1.1 million euros. Despite this massive crossing, Tursky, who was not able to move into the runoff election as a candidate for mayor, was not in financial difficulties because the Tyrolean People's Party and other partners assured their contributions. This was confirmed by the Innsbruck People's Party, which described itself as "debt -free". Plans for the introduction of an election campaign cost limit were requested by the SPÖ after Tursky's list finally ended up in fifth place and only played four mandates, such as reported.

The high campaign costs were placed as necessary to "make the new top candidates known", while the ultimately victorious mayor Johannes Anzengruber came from around 290,000 euros. The shocked FPÖ state party chairman Markus Abwerzger described the election campaign as the most expensive and criticized Tursky's wasteful behavior, while the Innsbrucker Neos demanded more transparency in campaign financing, as was also confirmed . The political landscape in Innsbruck changes through these events, since the city is now ruled under the coalition of "Yes - now Innsbruck", Greens and SPÖ.