Bernhard Heinzlmaier wrote that rumors about a replacement for Andreas Babler intensified. From Monday, Philip Kucher and Eva-Maria Holzleitner were to lead the SPÖ affairs as a dual leadership, while Babler was to remain party leader and vice-chancellor until the end of the year. Finance Minister Markus Marterbauer was to become vice-chancellor starting in January; a party congress was planned for March. Heinzlmaier stated that he had expected a dual leadership modeled after the SPD. He criticized the planned leadership as hopeless and wrote that the two young, but in his view already deeply rooted in the party bureaucracy, officials could not get the SPÖ back on track. Additionally, he described them derogatorily as a male-female duo in the manner of a traditional costume couple. #SPÖ #Politik #Österreich (translated)