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The ÖVP must replace Magnus Brunner (left) and Martin Kocher (behind Brunner). For the Greens, the successor to Werner Kogler must be determined.(Bild: BKA/Andy Wenzel)

The personnel carousel is spinning fast after the election, and a few prominent politicians are already clinging to their respective horses. And: who could replace Magnus Brunner and Martin Kocher. 

Andreas Babler doesn't have it easy. He leads a deeply divided party. Many wings have only one thing in common: they do not consider Babler to be the ideal party leader. At the same time, or perhaps because of this, the mayor of Traiskirchen ran the most physically intense election campaign of all the top candidates. Many believe that his (short) era will come to an end after the election Sunday due to a lack of success. People in the party with insight and experience take a different view: