In the past few weeks, Chancellor Karl Nehammer has had a new experience: things have gone more well than badly for the ÖVP. This is unexpected luxury. Because the first year of his chancellorship was characterized by a lot of headwind, as Nehammer himself likes to emphasize: “My swearing-in took place in lockdown, 80 days later war broke out in Ukraine.” The chancellor is less fond of mentioning the heaviest mortgage: almost a year For a long time, the ÖVP corruption investigation committee acted as a reliable supplier of glitches, problems and embarrassments.
