Turn with the Greens: Gewessler as the only candidate for succession!

Turn with the Greens: Gewessler as the only candidate for succession!

Wien, Österreich - A change of management is imminent: the Greens in Austria are in a crucial phase. On Sunday, June 1, 2025, the application deadline for the successor of Werner Kogler ends as a federal spokesman. So far, only Leonore Gewessler has announced their candidacy, while no significant competition is recognizable for them. The decision on any other candidates will be announced on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. The new federal spokesman will be elected on June 29, 2025 during the Federal Congress in Vienna. Gewessler announced her candidacy in early April 2025 by video message, and your support from Kogler and other favorites of the party is clear.

The Federal Congress is an important moment for the Greens. In addition to the federal spokesman, six members of the federal board are elected, including the Federal Finance Officer: in. The term for the federal spokesman and the federal board is three years. A total of 265 delegates are entitled to vote. Gewessler has moved on a listening tour through Austria in the past few weeks and emphasized that the concepts of the Greens in various areas of life have to offer practical solutions to convince voters. Her climate policy commitment, in particular her rejection of motorway projects and the support of the EU Renaturation Act against the will of the ÖVP, gave her additional support in the green base.

Current challenges and votes

The Federal Congress, which recently started in Vienna, was all about support for Gewessler, which was considered with a standing ovation. This is contrasting to the not exactly gratifying results of the Greens in the last election of the National Council, in which they only received 8.2 percent of the vote and are currently perceived as the weakest faction in parliament. Political scientist Peter Filzmaier emphasizes that the Greens' government work had harmed them and that the climate at the point of importance for voters would have lost.

In the last years of the crisis, the Greens were unable to set any themed accents, which undermined the perception as a "control party". Previous surveys indicate that the Greens could do even worse in the upcoming election than in 2019 when they received 13.9 percent of the vote. Kogler himself commented on the situation with the reference to a necessary "positive conversion" of the party and showed that he may not run as party leader again in the summer at the Federal Congress.

look at the future

The Greens not only strive to strengthen their profile in the opposition, but also plan concrete course of the course. The focus is on topics such as climate protection, value creation, social justice, basic child security, independent judiciary and the equality of women. Kogler would like to make sure that the Greens also appear as a relevant political force, while ÖVP boss Karl Nehammer emphasizes that there should be no “further as before”. Kogler, on the other hand, finds Nehammer's statement "a bit strange" because the ÖVP has been ruling for 37 years.

While the Greens position themselves at their federal congress and plan decisive steps into the future, it remains to be seen how the political landscape will develop until the election and whether the challenges have grown as new federal spokeswoman. Further information on this topic can be found in the reports from vienna.at , krone.at and Kurier .