Oskar Deutsch re-elected as IKG president with 95.7 percent

APA, Der Standard, January 11, 2023
German original: https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000142499416/oskar-deutsch-mit-95-7-zum-ikg-praesidenten-wiedergewaehlt

Michael Galibov and Claudia Prutscher are now Vice Presidents of the Jewish Community.

Vienna - Oskar Deutsch has been re-elected as president of the Jewish Community Vienna (IKG). At the constituent meeting of the Kultusvorstand of the IKG on Wednesday, Deutsch, who has been in office since 2012, received 22 of 23 votes, as the Kultusgemeinde announced in the evening. Michael Galibov and Claudia Prutscher were elected as vice presidents.

Prutscher, who had already served as vice president, ran in the IKG election on Deutsch's ATID list, Galibov for the Association of Bukharan Jews. The newly constituted Kultusvorstand had been elected in November 2022. The ATID list was able to retain its eight seats on the 24-member board. The Sefardim Bukharian Jews (VBJ) were the second strongest grouping with seven seats.(APA, 11.1.2023)