2 new SPÖ candidates

Red environment since childhood: And now state parliament?

Jochen Bocksruker (49) and Christina Winter da Silva (39) want to enter parliament for the SPÖ.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Christian Jauschowetz, Erwin Scheriau)

She is a social worker who lived in Brazil and now lives in Eastern Styria, he is a mayor, banker and has strong roots in his town in Western Styria: despite their different biographies, Christina Winter da Silva and Jochen Bocksruker have a lot in common - not least their longing for parliament.

Christina Winter da Silva (38) knows two worlds: For several years, she lived in the Brazilian city of São Paulo with its twelve million inhabitants, worked in prison chaplaincy, helped homeless people and taught German as a foreign language. She grew up in the district of Weiz and now lives back in Gutenberg (1650 souls), where she also spent the first years of her life.