State government Schützenhöfer I

State government Schützenhofer
Governor	Hermann Schützenhöfer
choice	2015
Legislative period	XVII.
Appointed by	State Parliament of Styria
education	June 15, 2015
The End	17th December 2019
Duration	4 years and 185 days
predecessor	State government of Voves II
successor	State government Schützenhöfer II
composition
Party (s)	ÖVP and SPÖ
representation
State Parliament of Styria	29/48

Distribution of seats in the state government Schützenhöfer I

4th

4th 4th

A total of 8 seats

ÖVP : 4
SPÖ : 4

The state government Schützenhöfer I is the Styrian state government elected by the state parliament after the state elections in Styria 2015 on June 16, 2015, under the programmatic name “Coalition Future Styria” . It is a coalition government made up of the SPÖ and ÖVP .

Originally the SPÖ under Franz Voves claimed the seat of the governor because the SPÖ Styria received around 1 percent more votes than the ÖVP. On June 10, 2015 , Voves resigned from all political functions following his announcement that he would step down if the election result was below 30 percent. The coalition negotiations with the ÖVP that took place after the system of proportional representation was abolished surprisingly revealed that the previous deputy governor Hermann Schützenhöfer (ÖVP) should lead the state government as the new governor from 2015 to 2020.

In the SPÖ, the renunciation of the post of governor as a stronger coalition participant at federal and state level was criticized. The opposition parties FPÖ, Greens and KPÖ also rated the continuation of the existing government cooperation negatively despite electoral losses. The reason given for the SPÖ's renouncing the position of governor was the risk of losing influence entirely through an ÖVP-FPÖ coalition.

After the announcement of Christian Buchmann's resignation from the regional council on April 25, 2017, the departments were redistributed, Christopher Drexler handed over the science department to Barbara Eibinger-Miedl and took over the cultural department.

On July 4, 2017, District Councilor Michael Schickhofer transferred the financial agenda to District Councilor Anton Lang.

State government Schützenhöfer I (2017)

Government members

Office	Surname		Areas of responsibility
Governor	Hermann Schützenhöfer	ÖVP	Municipalities (ÖVP or lists of names), organization and information technology, folk culture and central services
Deputy Governor	Michael Schickhofer	SPÖ	Finances (until July 4, 2017), regions, disaster control and national defense as well as SPÖ communities
Provincial Council	Christopher Drexler	ÖVP	Health, care and personnel; additional culture (from April 25, 2017); Science (until April 25, 2017)
Provincial Council	Johann Seitinger	ÖVP	Agriculture, forestry, housing, and water and resource management
Provincial Councilor	Ursula Lackner	SPÖ	Education and society
Provincial Council	Anton Lang	SPÖ	Finance (from July 4, 2017) Transport, Environment, Renewable Energies and Sport; since May 18, 2016, successor to Jörg Leichtfried
Provincial Councilor	Doris Kampus	SPÖ	Social, work and integration
Provincial Councilor	Barbara Eibinger-Miedl (since April 25, 2017)	ÖVP	Economy, science and research, tourism, Europe
Members of the state government who left prematurely
Provincial Council	Christian Buchmann (until April 25, 2017)	ÖVP	Economy, tourism, Europe and culture
Provincial Council	Jörg Leichtfried	SPÖ	until May 18, 2016, then Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology