Sachslehner departure – Kickl sees a possible split in the ÖVP

The party leadership of the ÖVP is certainly already “desperately looking for the telephone number of the event center in Knittelfeld”, Kickl scoffed, recalling the FPÖ deputies meeting in the city of Styria in 2002, which ultimately led to the resignation of liberal government members and the end of the black-blue coalition had consequences.

ÖVP club chairman August Wöginger is already so blind and blinded in his “affection for green club chairman Sigi Maurer” that he is “driving a wedge in his own game,” Kickl said, referring to Sachslehner being told by the black club chairman as to the climate bonus was recalled.

Tyrolean FPÖ leader offers “political asylum”.
Earlier, the invitation had been made to “reasonable forces within the Viennese ÖVP” to go part of the way with the Freedom Party, as Viennese party leader Dominik Nepp put it in a broadcast. Tyrolean FPÖ leader Markus Abwerzger also offered “political asylum”. Secretary General Michael Schnedlitz saw new federal elections as inevitable.

Federal director of SPÖ, Christian Deutsch, saw the resignation as an expression of the chaos in the turquoise-green federal government and in the ÖVP. He also called for new elections because: “Nehammer has completely slipped the reins both as chancellor and as ÖVP boss, the government and ÖVP are de facto leaderless.”