Big party is coming up

Those who don’t want to miss Mikl-Leitner’s 60th …

60th birthday party: Johanna Mikl-Leitner celebrates with Nehammer, Karner, Tanner and 2000 guests.(Bild: Kristian Bissuti)

Klosterneuburg is turned upside down today as 2000 guests from the worlds of politics, business and sport celebrate Lower Austrian Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner (ÖVP). Not present, however, is former chancellor Sebastian Kurz.

She has been through everything you can experience in politics: successes, failures, crises, a wave of refugees and a highly controversial coalition with the FPÖ. Even if her image has been tarnished since forming a coalition with Udo Landbauer, Johanna Mikl-Leitner is one of the few women in Austria to have held her own in top politics for more than 13 years.