The chairman of the National Council, Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP) speaks to the “Krone” about the billion-dollar affair with Wien Energie, thin politicians, the continuation of the ÖVP committee and the incumbent Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen.
Wolfgang Sobotka is what you would call a black veteran. Socialized in the ÖVP Lower Austria. Been in politics for 40 years. Controversial as well as consistent. He can also get emotional very quickly, but he says he has become more relaxed as he gets older. Despite 20 advertisements, all of which would have yielded nothing.
ÖVP subcommittee
The 66-year-old chairman of the National Council will once again chair the ÖVP’s subcommittee on Tuesday. “The commission is the sharpest sword of the opposition, but it is not a court. He has a very clear political goal. Sometimes the interrogation is like an interrogation.”
He had been represented as chairman several times, so little had changed in the discussion culture. “So it can’t just be me, but the case itself.” Looking at some additional evidence requests, “I wonder what that has to do with the subject of the investigation.”
Cause Wien Energie
Sobotka also comments on the Wien Energie case. “The SPÖ saw itself in the revival and that is why they wanted to continue the spiral of escalation. That there is a real financial scandal looming in Vienna, the stronghold of the SPÖ, is of course not very convenient for the comrades.” The subject didn’t come up overnight – see the privately awarded payments of 1.4 billion by Mayor Michael Ludwig.
No understanding of the “offender-victim reversal”
The federal government responded quickly and unbureaucratically in the interests of customers. “So I don’t know why you need to do a perpetrator-victim reversal now.” In general, you have been in a very emotional mood for months. “Politicians are getting thinner and thinner. The opposition is getting clearer and louder. That is understandable.”
Sobotka also comments on the presidential election. He is for incumbent Alexander Van der Bellen. “You know how he acted during a difficult time and it’s no secret that I’ve always had a good working relationship with him. Politics is always about personal relationships.”
Source: Krone
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