TV debates about to be canceled?

This is how tricky the storms are for top politicians

Lower Austria's former governor Erwin Pröll scored points with authenticity. Armin Laschet's laugh (center) may have cost him his chancellorship. Viktor Klima slipped into his rubber boots before a NATO summit.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Gerald Lechner, Tesarek H./APA, Marius Becker)

While the party leaders are preparing for the election campaign finale, the highest storm alert level was declared for parts of Austria on Thursday. Will the election campaign now have to be interrupted? And which parties could benefit politically from the severe weather scenarios? The "Krone" looks to the past - and with experts to the coming weekend. 

Top politicians in front of cameras and in rubber boots. Iconic photos of Lower Austrian ÖVP governor Erwin Pröll (during the flood of the century in 2002) remain in the collective memory of the Republic. However, appearances in disaster areas can be tricky and backfire, as the German CDU learned in 2021, as did former SPD Chancellor Viktor Klima.