Filzmaier analysis

How the Styrian government can only lose

Worries ahead of November 24: Governor Christopher Drexler (right) and Deputy Governor Anton Lang(Bild: Christian Jauschowetz)

To what extent do the results of the National Council elections influence the trend for the Styrian state elections in November? Could there be a new head of state, will Christopher Drexler be replaced? Political scientist Peter Filzmaier analyzes.

Around 950,000 of the more than 6.3 million eligible voters nationwide live in Styria. That is 15 percent. At the same time, there is a large city, industrial areas, tourist communities and rural areas in equal measure in the white-green marrow. Styria's diversity is therefore a reflection of the Austrian electoral cosmos as a whole.