Austrian leadership elections 2017/18 - your (hypothetical) vote !

[Tender Branson]

You have 5 votes, one for each party's leadership election.

SPÖ

Christian Kern (incumbent SPÖ-leader and Austrian Chancellor)



ÖVP

Reinhold Mitterlehner (left, incumbent ÖVP-leader and Austrian Vice-Chancellor)
Sebastian Kurz (right, current Minister of Foreign Affairs and Integration)



FPÖ

Heinz Christian Strache (left, incumbent FPÖ-leader)
Norbert Hofer (right, currently 3rd President of the Austrian Parliament, acting Austrian President)



Greens

Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek (left, incumbent Green-leader)
Ingrid Felipe-Saint Hilaire (right, currently Green-leader in Tyrol and Vice-Governor of the state)



NEOS

Matthias Strolz (right, incumbent NEOS-leader)
Irmgard Griss (center, former Austrian Supreme Court president, professor and lawyer)

[Tender Branson]

My choices:

SPÖ:

Kern is a good guy, but I prefer his successful/greenish CEO-wife as Chancellor and SPÖ-leader ...

ÖVP:

Kurz, for strategic reasons (would weaken the FPÖ)

FPÖ:

Strache (he's depressing the FPÖ's support with his talk, contrary to Hofer)

Greens:

both are fine (Glawischnig out of loyalty)

NEOS:

Strolz is a good guy, but Griss has more potential for the party's success in 2017/18.

[Tender Branson]

Is Griss formally a member of Neos ? Was she when she ran an Independent campaign for President ?

No and no.

(this is more meant to be a hypothetical leadership election, not a real one with party members. And also meant more as "which person should lead "x" party into the next federal election as top candidate ?)