Start in Carinthia

The Federal Chancellor tours municipal parlors

(Bild: GERT EGGENBERGER / APA / picturedesk.com)

Nehammer starts visits to mayors in Carinthia - who will probably have many questions about the financial plight.

VP regional leader Martin Gruber was delighted with the high-profile visit by Federal Chancellor Karl Nehammer to the party headquarters in Klagenfurt: "The mayors' tour is starting here with us - an important signal that talking to each other instead of dividing society is our kind of politics!" Nehammer wants to talk to the mayors as equals and promise improvements in funding: "We have agreed an investment package of 1.2 billion euros."

Anyone who sees Nehammer on the campaign trail would be mistaken - he prefers to call it "dialog". What else was on his mind was the issue of Gewessler: "Where the law is broken, you can't look the other way." The coalition remains, but there is no alternative to the criminal charges. On Kickl, the Chancellor said: "He wants to divide society and is entrenched in conspiracy theories - I don't see any improvement there."

"More personnel for the police and army"
Security: "We need more police and army personnel to defend our country when it comes under attack." And childcare: "Families need freedom of choice - there will be 4.5 billion euros more for childcare in the federal states by 2030."