SPÖ pulls out red card?

Babler in a tight spot after the “Bures quake”

A letter from Doris Bures that has become public puts Andreas Babler in a predicament.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/APA/Helmut Fohringer)

The day after the "Bures quake", SPÖ leader Andreas Babler announces "internal talks" and "clear statements" at a party appearance in Graz. The "Krone" knows how the nasty letter from the red party leader came about, what it will trigger in the SPÖ in the short and medium term and how Babler should now organize his "summer talk" on ORF. 

Around a month before the national elections and shortly before his big appearance on ORF's "Sommergespräch", SPÖ leader Andreas Babler is under massive pressure within the party. He received the most recent and perhaps biggest slap in the face of his young term of office not from the usual red "cross-shooters" from Burgenland or Tyrol, but from Doris Bures of all people, the undisputed political great of the SPÖ. The reason for her nasty letter was a chain of very unfortunate circumstances for Babler.