Unofficial politics

ÖVP runs into the parade of its own state secretary

One topic, two different opinions: While State Secretary Claudia Plakolm (ÖVP), who comes from Upper Austria, insists on a tougher approach to the minimum age for prison stays, people in her home country have a different opinion. Read below to find out what the ÖVP's regional managing director once said. Plus: This is the view from the State Secretary's office.

Claudia Plakolm from Upper Austria has made herself at home in Vienna: She and her team reside in an office complex on Untere Donaustraße in the Leopoldstadt district. From the terrace of her office on the top floor, she has a view of the Ministry of Defense and Health of her party colleague Klaudia Tanner and the Green Party's Johannes Rauch.