State election

Familiar faces among the Greens

Eva Hammerer and Daniel Zadra (center) lead the Green candidate team(Bild: Grüne Vorarlberg)

The Green Party of Vorarlberg has drawn up its district lists (Bludenz and Feldkirch) for the upcoming state elections. The "dual leadership" is prominently represented in both. 

The Greens are entering the state election campaign in the districts of Bludenz and Feldkirch with familiar faces. The current MPs Nadine Kasper (Bludenz) and Bernhard Weber (Feldkirch) are once again taking up promising positions on the lists. For symbolic and tactical reasons, the party leaders Daniel Zadra and Eva Hammerer were elected to head the district lists, running as a "dual leadership" and also ranking at the top of the state list.

At the district assemblies on Monday, Zadra and Hammerer were each elected to the top two places on the list with 100 percent approval. In Bludenz, Kasper follows ahead of Aylin Olgun, the spokesperson for Green Women Vorarlberg. In the Bludenz district, the Greens did not achieve a basic mandate in the 2019 state parliamentary elections; Kasper entered parliament via the state list at the time.

Bernhard Weber took third place in the Feldkirch district, with Kasper and Argentinian-born Alejandro Schwaszta in fourth and fifth place respectively. In 2019, two Green politicians from the Feldkirch district made it into the state parliament.