Attorney Weber attacks Bickel in Hard!

Attorney Weber attacks Bickel in Hard!

In the recently taken municipal elections in Hard, the list "Future Hard" caused a sensation with around 38 percent of the vote and won the choice. Her top candidate René Bickel won 34 percent in the mayoral election and is now on March 30, 2025 in a runoff election against the reigning mayor Martin Staudinger from "Mitanand for Hard". But now the legality of this election is challenged by a lawyer. Anton Weber, a lawyer colleague from Hard, levies against the candidacy of “Future Hard” and believes that the list should not appear in the same form as the previous ÖVP list, as the ORF Vorarlberg reports.

Weber argues that "Future Hard" should have collected signatures for election because it was not identical to the previous ÖVP list. He describes participation as not lawful and suggests that the elections can be lifted immediately. Now the decision lies with the state election authority, which must clarify whether Weber is right with its contestation or not. The result of this exam could have far -reaching consequences for the newly designed voter community. Bickel, who reacts quite calmly to the contestation, considers the allegations to be transparent political maneuvers and emphasizes that the list was designed as a non -partisan exercise from the start, according to the reporting on Vol.at.

political unrest in Hard

Bickel perceives the time of opposition as strange and makes it clear that there would have been enough opportunity in advance to express concerns about the agreement of the list. In his opinion, this could already have been brought up in the municipal election authority, where representatives of all parties sit. In his opinion, the reason for the objection is nothing more than a "attempted attempt" on the part of Weber, who was active in local politics by 2020 and was Vice Mayor of Hard in 2010.