130 new appointments

Blue-Black reshuffles Styrian supervisory boards

(Bild: Krone KREATIV)

Under the leadership of Mario Kunasek and Michaela Khom, the blue-black coalition is getting down to business in Styria: a good 130 supervisory board members in state and state-affiliated companies will be replaced this week and next week at a rapid pace. Numerous red representatives - such as Günter Dörflinger at Kages - are leaving the boards. The state government's proposals - the election of the supervisory board members is still pending - are causing a stir among the opposition.

For days, there has been uproar in state companies about planned blue-black changes - yesterday, for example, the cultural board of trustees was surprisingly removed. The SPÖ, which will no longer be represented on some supervisory boards after leaving the provincial government, promptly railed that critical voices were being silenced. For example, in Kages, where Günter Dörflinger was replaced as chairman by Peter Umundum (an ÖVP man and member of the Post Board).

New: Siegfried Nagl, Christian Buchmann, Willi Gabalier(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Sepp Pail, Christian Jauschowetz, Richard Schuster)

Former Opera Ball organizer Maria Großbauer takes over at Bühnen Graz. A "great success", as the office of Karlheinz Kornhäusl, the politically responsible provincial councillor, emphasizes. Everything is also new at the Universalmuseum Joanneum, where the former mayor of Graz, Siegfried Nagl, will join the board of directors. 

Willi Gabalier, brother of the folk rock'n'roller and "Bares für Rares" presenter, will in turn be responsible for Volkskultur Steiermark GmbH via FPÖ-Ticket. And Christian Buchmann, former ÖVP regional economic councillor and federal councillor, has also found a new role: He will head the Kulturkuratorium in future.

Have a good day on this exciting day of state and federal politics!