Vice in the summer discussion – Kogler emphasizes: ‘Lena Schilling was the right choice’

Kogler answered Meinrad Knapp’s questions yesterday with unusually clear words and without long, complicated sentences. ‘How much did Lena Schilling hurt the Greens?’ Kogler’s answer: “She was the right choice. We designed it the same way, because we are an alliance party. It was like this: we consciously addressed the climate protection movement with the climate activists.”

“She is a young fighter”
Kogler has “seen Schilling several times during panel discussions.” The main reason they wanted to take her to the EU elections was: “She is a young fighter for climate protection.” to take their future into their own hands. I think this is the right decision.”

Schilling is also said to have learned something new. Kogler: “She realizes that she made mistakes at some point. She also regrets it and apologized. But now is the time for her to fight for climate protection in the European Parliament!”

“There is a lot of aggression online, but I don’t immediately feel threatened”
Knapp also asked him if he was worried about imitators in Austria after the attacks on Donald Trump and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico? Kogler: “There is a lot of aggression on the Internet, but I don’t feel directly threatened and I’m not worried about myself.” But “we have to be careful and we have to be careful in Austria too. In general, things are still going better in Austria, but there are no guarantees and that’s why you have to warn before the beginning.”

A thorn in Kogler’s side is the rhetoric of FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl. It is “politically very difficult to reject and unacceptable when Kickl, which he can do in his leadership party, calls for wanted lists. This is an implicit call to lower the threshold for violence. This is a call for intolerance.” And for Kogler: “No tolerance for intolerance.”

The Green leader also comments on the dispute with the ÖVP – keyword renaturation law: “There is a fair, great concern behind it, it is about environmental and nature conservation throughout Europe. The Greens make the difference. We have carefully weighed this and secured legal protection for every step.” Everything else must now be decided by the authorities. The Greens have stuck to the line of “more environmental and climate protection” throughout the entire parliamentary term. Kogler lashed out at Chancellor Karl Nehammer: “In this respect, we have shown our true colors.”

Kogler gets along better with ÖVP Chancellor Nehammer than with Kurz
When asked whether he got along better with Nehammer than with former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, Kogler immediately replied: “Yes, without even waiting for the question to be asked!” His insistence on replacing Kurz in October 2021 was a matter of conviction. At that time, “it came to light: the misuse of taxpayers’ money, an internal ÖVP feud involving a not exactly reputable daily newspaper. The main no-go for me was the taxpayers’ money thing!” Continuing the coalition with Kurz as Chancellor was “no longer possible”.

Puls 24 also used ChatGPT’s artificial intelligence to ask Kogler an unusual question: which comic character he would be and what conclusions that allows about his personality. Kogler answered just as unusually: ‘I am three: Huey, Dewey and Louie, Donald Duck’s nephews. I think they are relatively heavy. For politics, I can conclude from this that I am absolutely radical when it comes to fighting for my vital interests: reconciling climate protection and environmental protection with economic reason and social security.