"Fair to date"

Countdown for the 2025 election begins

The upper limit on campaign spending for the parties is intended to curb the proliferation of advertising posters.(Bild: APA/HANS KLAUS TECHT / APA / picturedesk.com)

The Burgenland political campaign is about to begin. The parties are still exercising restraint. 

Around Christmas Eve and the festive season, there was something of a political calm before the storm. After the Christmas vacations, the final spurt officially begins until the elections on January 19, 2025.

SPÖ parliamentary group chairman Roland Fürst considers the election campaign cap of 300,000 euros, which was passed in June with the votes of the SPÖ and the Greens in parliament on the initiative of the provincial governor, to be "absolutely the right decision".

"The strictest party funding law of all federal states"
"This means that Burgenland has the strictest party promotion law of all the federal states," emphasizes Fürst. The posters, advertisements and election gifts clearly show that the parties are spending less money. "That was precisely our aim, as the population has no sympathy for an expensive battle of material before the state election, especially at Christmas time," explains the SPÖ party leader.

A positive side effect according to Fürst: "So far, the election campaign has been reasonably fair. We can only hope that it stays that way until 19 January." The SPÖ's election campaign kicks off on January 6 in Oberwart.