There was a threat of legal action

Beer party removed its election poster for Upper Austria

It was only a triangular stand with the Beer Party's election poster in Upper Austria. But it's already gone again. The more or less creative slogan had apparently infringed trademark rights and resulted in a lawyer's letter from the tourism experts. "That was not intentional," says Dominik Wlazny.

Upper Austria became "Obierösterreich" and Dominik Wlazny, top candidate of the beer party, is not allowed to do that. At least that is the legal opinion of Oberösterreich Tourismus GmbH. It has the trademark rights and threatened to sue the beer party after the slogan was presented.

Saving was the order of the day
The poster, which incidentally was only available once on a triangular stand - the beer party cannot and does not want to afford more per federal state and also "does not want to pave over the landscape" - is already history again. In the "Kleine Zeitung" podcast, Dominik Wlazny said: "We turned Upper Austria into OBierösterreich and violated the trademark rights of Oberösterreich Tourismus GmbH. I'm sorry, it wasn't intentional, we didn't want to offend anyone."