Reckoning during speech

Lercher on the SPÖ: “Thank you for the great enmity”

That's how he's been known for years: Max Lercher remained eloquent at the last National Council meeting, thanking parts of the party for the "great enmity" during his speech.(Bild: Sepp Pail)

Max Lercher, the red party's former federal managing director and friend of Doskozil, was sidelined by Babler's supporters. Now the eloquent Upper Styrian had to settle accounts in parliament.

Some in his own party were left laughing in their throats, others applauded loudly. In his last speech in the National Council last week, Max Lercher, a massive supporter of Hans Peter Doskozil, polarized as he had repeatedly done in recent years.