Federal Conference of the Young Generation in the SPÖ re-elects Michael Kögl as chairman

In the presence of Federal Women’s Chairman Eva-Maria Holzleitner, Salzburg Mayor Bernhard Auinger, Federal Managing Director Klaus Seltenheim, Deputy State Party Chairman Bettina Brandauer and numerous other guests of honor, over 150 delegates re-elected the Federal Executive Board of the Young Generation in the SPÖ on Saturday and dealt with over 80 topics applications.

At the conference, St. Pölten local councilor Michael Kögl, who has served as chairman of the SPÖ youth department since 2022, was re-elected with 96.8 percent of the delegate votes. Federal Secretary Julian Krismer was also impressively confirmed and the 25-member board from all federal states was elected with an overwhelming majority.****

“We have overcome an incredible number of challenges in the past two years – in addition to election campaigns in various federal states, the EU election and the National Council election, we have also taken the path to a generational change and set substantive accents!” said Kögl happily in his speech to the Conference. “We have a clear goal: to make the lives of young people better – that’s why we gave our conference the motto ‘Bringing back the future’. It’s about nothing less than a good life for everyone and especially for young people!” said the newly elected chairman.

In the run-up to the federal conference, the first women’s conference of the Young Generation took place on Friday, at which Stefanie Grötz was elected as women’s spokesperson and Laura Gotcheva was confirmed as women’s secretary. In addition, after several decades, a newly founded Burgenland regional group was accepted into the association. Representatives of the sister organizations also accepted the invitation to the conference – Miriam Amann and Selina Wienerroither for the Association of Socialist Students, Dede Koudouvoh and Julia Barnay for the Action of Critical Students, and NAbg for the Socialist Youth. Paul Stich, the FSG youth Fabian Edlinger, the SPÖ federal education Dr. Gerhard Schmid and managing director Wolfgang Markytan as well as Matteo Gebhart for the Association of Social Democratic Freedom Fighters.

“We have always set the pace in the SPÖ and want to continue to be so,” Kögl says confidently and further emphasizes: “With today’s decisions, we are ready and say very clearly: the SPÖ’s politics must be noticeable. In opposition as well as in a government! This is what we stand for. Clear, loud and self-confident – because we need it particularly urgently at a time when anti-democratic, authoritarian and autocratic forces are gaining ground. We will not give them any peace!” (End)