Politics Unofficial

How power is shifting in the People’s Party

Under Christian Stocker, the balance of power in the ÖVP has shifted - Upper Austria's Thomas Stelzer is one of the winners ...(Bild: APA/GEORG HOCHMUTH / APA / picturedesk.com)

The Turkish delegation that gathered in the Hofburg for a crisis meeting with Alexander Van der Bellen made it clear that a massive shift in power is currently taking place in the ÖVP.

ÖVP leader Christian Stocker was flanked by Upper Austria's Governor Thomas Stelzer as representative of the ÖVP provinces, club chairman August Wöginger and the new, young ÖVP Secretary General Alexander Pröll.