Karl Nehammer spoke. The ÖVP party leader’s appearance on Friday was an election speech. Although he would certainly have been happy if he had been seen as a chancellor addressing his nation. But speeches to the nation only sometimes add value to democratic policy. Even rarer is that they make a politician permanently popular.
1. The Austrian classic of an address to the nation is not real. But bitterly bad. Spoken in 1970 in a radio play intended as a political satire by the famous comedian Helmut Qualtinger. He is locked up in a psychiatric institution and accepts an ‘election’ by the people as the new head of state. Then, speaking through the keyhole of his cell, he gives the country his speech full of anti-democratic omnipotence fantasies.
Source: Krone
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