In the town of Feldbach

Feldbach: tussle for “black supremacy”

Josef Ober, long-time member of the provincial parliament and Vulkanland visionary, has been mayor of Feldbach since 2015.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Jürgen Fuchs)

The ÖVP has a firm grip on the reins in the district capital Feldbach. Mayor Josef Ober wants to run for one last term. But will the blue wave now also reach the town hall? In neighboring Bad Gleichenberg, the Freedom Party is even claiming the mayoralty!

South-eastern Styria is traditionally a black heartland - and since the municipal merger in 2015, the district capital of Feldbach, which had long been governed by the SPÖ, has also been firmly in the hands of the ÖVP. In the last municipal elections, the Black Party under Mayor Josef Ober was even able to achieve a two-thirds majority in the municipal parliament.