The first personnel package of the new SPÖ chairman Andreas Babler is ready. On Tuesday, the federal board unanimously confirmed Sandra Breiteneder and Klaus Seltenheim as federal managing directors. In the afternoon, health spokesman Philip Kucher is to be elected executive club chairman. Formally the head of the club is Babler himself, but from the Federal Council.
The top of the club will be broadened in a general meeting in the afternoon. The new first deputies will be women’s chairpersons Eva Maria Holzleitner and Julia Herr. Jörg Leichtfried, who previously held this position, is giving it up but remains on the club executive committee. Finance spokesman Jan Krainer, who will also take more care of anti-corruption issues, will move in there. The prerequisite for all of this is the – of course to be expected – approval from the club later in the afternoon.
The federal office, which has been vacant since Christian Deutsch left, is being taken over by a duo unknown to the general public. Breiteneder comes from the private employees’ union, where she was responsible, among other things, for international issues and women’s issues. She was also active in the cabinet of former State Secretary Muna Duzdar, most recently in the Vienna Employee Promotion Fund (WAFF).
Seltenheim, who was state manager of the SPÖ Lower Austria under Franz Schnabl, had a little more publicity. Among other things, Babeler justified the election with his “incredible wealth of experience”, as he had already organized local council and state election campaigns. Rare home was also active in the federal management in previous years. The new head of communications is Patricia Huber, who was heavily involved in Babler’s campaign and was previously active on the Kontrast blog.
