Barbara Urbanic (KPÖ) is intended to be the top candidate - ahead of Angelika Adensamer from the LINKS party. On the ballot, the alliance should be found under the short name KPÖ, and in the long name under KPÖ and LINKS - Communist Party of Austria and LINKS Vienna, according to a press release.

"The SPÖ will also win these municipal elections and provide the mayor. However, many worries and needs of the people have been falling by the wayside for years," said the 42-year-old Urbanic. So it depends on a "social opposition that challenges the SPÖ where it has been comfortable for a long time".

KPÖ and LINKS at the Start Together in Vienna Election 2020

"We are pleased that we have again succeeded in uniting left-wing forces and forming a powerful candidacy," said Adensamer. KPÖ and LINKS had already run together in the Vienna election in 2020 (then under the short name Links) and are represented in 15 district representations with 23 mandates. However, they did not manage to enter the municipal council. The collection of the necessary support declarations for the candidacy has already begun. Parties not yet represented in the municipal council need more than 2,000 certified support declarations.

Petrovic List Also Wants to Run in Vienna Election

The Petrovic List (LMP), which only received 0.6 percent of the votes in the national election in September, also wants to run in the Vienna election. The list announced this on Monday via Twitter. Although the result from September was "far too little" to enter the National Council, the list admitted on its homepage. At the same time, the election result was "a great vote of confidence from 28,488 people - including 5,558 in Vienna" who "very, very consciously chose LMP". This is "a basis and a mandate for the future", said the list, which is now soliciting support declarations.

Last week, the former FPÖ leader and Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache also announced that he wanted to run in the Vienna election. The "Team HC Strache - Alliance for Austria" must now also collect support declarations.

(APA/Red)

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