Vienna (OTS) – In part 4 of the Ö3 summer talks in “Breakfast with me” (July 7), SPÖ leader Andreas Babler was a guest of Claudia Stöckl.
Babler spoke about the conflict with Hans-Peter Doskozil and whether the personal meeting with Burgenland’s governor, which he announced in “Breakfast with Me” a year ago, ever took place. Andreas Babler on Ö3: “No, this meeting did not take place. We spoke on the phone once, but it was completely clear that we were working together professionally. There is no personal problem.”
In the Ö3 summer talks, Babler was confident that he would be able to catch up in the three-way electoral battle between the SPÖ, FPÖ and ÖVP and answered the question whether black-red-pink would be his favorite coalition variant: “Such games are completely irrelevant because, firstly, you don’t knows who will still be there if they don’t win the elections. But at the same time, for me it’s not about people and colors, but the condition: with whom you can get the furthest in order to improve conditions, I don’t want to predict that now, I’m now concentrating on us getting government responsibility.
The SPÖ top candidate also told a lot of personal things in the Ö3 summer conversation: that he regularly brings his wife, SPÖ local councilor Karin Blum, coffee in bed as a token of his love, accompanied by a song on his cell phone: “I like to surprise her with a good one Musical number, for example by Tracy Chapman.” There are also declarations of love every day “to his wife and daughter and even the dog.” Is it true that his wife is also his closest advisor? “Which woman in our audience wouldn’t be an advisor,” laughs Babler, “of course she advises me, she’s a clever woman politically, but of course I have my own positions and my decisions to make.”
Claudia Stöckl also spoke to the SPÖ leader about a little-known leisure activity: he is a hunter. Isn’t this a conservative-elitist hobby? Babler in the Ö3 summer talk:
“Not at all. I am a tenant in a small cooperative hunt. As a child, I always wanted to become a professional forester because there were always local films with the smooches of the professional foresters and the beautiful animals and landscapes. But I haven’t hunted at all in the last two years and I can’t remember what I shot last.”
Regarding the cross-shots in his party, including from Tyrolean deputy governor Georg Dornauer, Babler said to Ö3 presenter Claudia Stöckl: “If you ask me about this story with heckling: I think everyone who does that has to There are only very few people left who think about whether this is clever or not, the reason why so many people say:
Such a system of politics, where it’s all about power and positions, is a reason to turn away.” Babler doesn’t want to act as a mediator in the also conflict-ridden relationship between the state governors Michael Ludwig and Hans-Peter Doskozil: “I didn’t run , to post group therapy, I’m not into that.”
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