The Justice Minister's maternity leave: who will take over the reins now?

The Justice Minister's maternity leave: who will take over the reins now?

In a happy announcement, Justice Minister Alma Zadić announced that she will be represented by Social and Health Minister Johannes Rauch during her maternity leave. The minister is expecting her second child shortly and plans to retire for a few weeks to devote time to the new family constellation. “Dear Johannes, I wish you much success and all the best for this exciting task,” wrote Zadić in a post on the Bluesky platform, in which she also expressed her joy about Rauch’s takeover Small newspaper reported.

For his part, Rauch, who belongs to the Green Party as well as Zadić, announced that he was “heartily” looking forward to the challenge and praised Zadić as a “guarantor of an independent judiciary.” In her post, Zadić also shared a picture of both of them wearing baby clothes with the humorous slogan: "Legally verified: Mom is the best!" This maternity break will be the minister's second, as her first break at the beginning of 2021 was also temporarily accompanied by the then party leader Werner Kogler. However, there are no authentic maternity or maternity leave regulations for female politicians, as these provisions are not applied to political mandates, as stated in another report by The press was determined.