Antonio Della Rossa:

“It’s okay for Staudinger to collect preferential votes”

"I am the ideal social democrat," says the 42-year-old leading candidate for the Red Party.(Bild: Dietmar Stiplovsek)

For Antonio Della Rossa, lead candidate of the SPÖ Vorarlberg for the national elections, the battle for the mandate is getting really tight. Nevertheless, the 42-year-old is confident.

"Krone": Mr. Della Rossa, where does your surname come from?
Antonio Della Rossa: I got it from my father, who is Italian. He met my mother, who grew up in Nüziders, in London in the 1970s, where she was working as an au pair.