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The blue marrow in Jörg Haider’s footsteps
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen It has been 35 years since Jörg Haider was sworn in as the first liberal governor of the Second Republic in Carinthia. When the old Green intellectual is sworn in as Federal President on Thursday in Vienna's Hofburg Palace, the former professional soldier Mario Kunasek will be sworn in as the new Styrian governor, which will be just as politically sensational as it was back then.
ON THE ONE HAND, blue politicians in state governments are nothing new these days. The FPÖ is currently in government in four other federal states - also in coalition with the People's Party.
OTHERWISE, it is now - as in Carinthia - the Freedom Party that sets the direction. And for almost 20 years until his accidental death, Haider remained, with interruptions, the formative politician not only in Carinthian provincial politics.
Kunasek, who is just 48 years old, could now be just as influential for Styria as Bärentaler was for Carinthia. The popular new head of state has to accept the reproach that the blue-black government program consists to a large extent of symbolic politics: gender and indirect headscarf bans etc..
However, if he were also able to develop real solutions to problems - especially in economic terms - Kunasek could leave his mark on Styria, just as Haider did in the southernmost province.
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