There's a huge row

Dispute over a lot of money: the new red-pink front

A picture from better days - Andreas Babler and Sepp Schellhorn campaigned together for healthy food in schools. Today, things are no longer going so well between them.(Bild: Stadtgemeinde Traiskirchen)

The number three and number four in the electorate's favor are clashing in the government negotiations. Yet they were already so close, analyzes Rainer Nowak.

Those were the days: Neos MP Stefanie Krisper and SPÖ MP Jan Krainer staged themselves as a dream U-committee couple who would take down Sebastian Kurz. Neos deputy leader Niki Scherak and his counterpart Andreas Schieder cultivated a close parliamentary friendship. Neos lateral thinker Sepp Schellhorn supported Traiskirchen's mayor and SPÖ aspirant Andreas Babler in his efforts for healthy free school meals for all. Schellhorn was even briefly reprimanded for this by his strict party leader Beate Meinl-Reisinger.