Volt Austria presents its new executive board
September 2024 - Volt Austria elected a new Federal Executive Board back in July, which is now officially in office after a handover period. Rico Winter was confirmed as Co-President for the 2nd term of office, the new Co-President is Karoline Adam. As there were candidates for all positions, the Federal Executive Board is finally complete again.
After a long time, a fully staffed Board can finally get back to work: Rico Winter and Tim Schöneberg will remain as Co-President and Treasurer, with Karoline Adam (Co-President), Laurens Pöschl (Community Lead), Joshua Bayrak (Regional Lead), Sebastian Maurer (Communications Lead) and Erich Adam (Policy Lead) as new members.
The new board now faces the task of preparing Volt Austria for the upcoming elections in cities such as Vienna, Graz and St. Pölten, driving membership growth and fundraising and actively promoting the party's visions of solidarity, transparency and progressive politics.
Here is our new board in detail:
Rico Winter, Co-President, already Co-Federal Party Chair since September 2023, former Youth and Equality Spokesperson and leader of the Salzburg team, is convinced that Volt, as a pan-European party, has the potential to stand up for fundamental values such as human rights, inclusion, freedom and equality across Europe.
Karoline Adam, Co-President, 42, has been with Volt since 2022, studied media and cultural studies and trained as a journalist: “Politics lacks big, bold and, above all, positive visions of what our life in Europe could look like in the future. What could we achieve together if only we worked together at European level instead of competing and blocking each other?”
Tim Schöneberg, Treasurer of the new Executive Board, calls for more Europe - for a progressive and social society! We can only overcome the upcoming challenges and crises together. This requires a strong Austria in a strong Europe.
Joshua Bayrak, Regional Lead, who has been with the party since 2022, is determined to tackle the upcoming challenges together with the new Executive Board and take all the necessary steps to take Volt in Austria to the next level. Europe, Austria and Volt are facing a long and certainly not always easy road. And now it is up to us to take the reins and move in the right direction.
Laurens Pöschl, Community Lead on the new Executive Board, is committed to promoting greater cooperation. Working closely with the existing teams, the aim is to create clear structures that strengthen cooperation and promote the community in the long term.
Erich Adam, Policy Lead, with Volt since 2022: Volt Austria needs a good policy program that sets out our values and positions and can hopefully provide a solid foundation for many more election programs!
Sebastian Maurer, Communications Lead: I want to give Volt a voice to the outside world so that soon all of Austria will know this wonderful party.
We stand for strong cooperation at all levels. Together we want to create new, progressive policies in Austria & all of Europe and at the same time stand up for values such as democracy, human rights & equality.
We would also like to thank the former board members Jessica Sommer and Emanuel Klatzer for their valuable work and commitment!
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