The Upper Austrian ÖVP top politician August Wöginger is to withdraw from one of his long-standing functions at the state party conference of the Upper Austrian People’s Party on April 24th. As the Upper Austrian news and the Crown newspaper According to consistent reports, Wöginger will no longer run as one of the deputies of Governor Thomas Stelzer. He has been part of the four-person deputy team in the state VP since 2017, and his role as a possible successor will reportedly be taken over by Economics Minister Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer.