The Constitutional Court has rejected or rejected several requests from the ÖVP regarding the U-committee. On the one hand, the highest judges found that the requested documents did not fall under the subject of the investigation, on the other hand, the People’s Party made a mistake in the date of one of its requests to the Constitutional Court and apparently mixed up the months.
The background is that the ÖVP faction in the U-committee wanted to determine that it was illegal for the Justice Department to immediately review and submit chats between the former Secretary General of the Treasury Department Thomas Schmid and people with a disability. be closely related to the SPÖ or FPÖ. However, the Court ruled that there was no legal basis for such a finding.
“Incorrect date specification”
The second request from MEPs referred to two “requests of 26/02/2022”, which, however, do not exist. The Minister of Justice was asked for the first time on January 26 to evaluate and present such chats. According to its own statements, the VfGH is prohibited from interpreting this application by correcting the date. Due to the wrong date, the subject matter of the procedure before the Constitutional Court is too vague and this request must also be rejected.
Other applications were also considered substantively and subsequently rejected. ÖVP faction leader Andreas Hanger and colleagues had requested that certain documents about filling management positions with former cabinet employees, as well as files and documents related to the granting of certain orders in federal ministries that cannot be attributed to the ÖVP, should be submitted to the subcommittee. submitted . The committee had rejected the majority.
“Not enough”
The VfGH came close. A connection between the required documents and the subject of the U-committee is not obvious; the deputies should therefore have further substantiated their request. The general claim that people associated with the ÖVP could also have been favored in departments not controlled by the ÖVP is not enough.
Source: Krone
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