The People’s Party received a broad rejection for its questions in the ÖVP’s corruption subcommittee on Wednesday. Due to a lack of connection with the subject of the survey, the respondents – a department head in the Chancellery, the former Viennese SPÖ councilor Siegfried Lindenmayr and ex-SPÖ chancellor Josef Ostermayer – hardly had to answer.
It was a curious day in the U-Commission: the ÖVP had invited SPÖ people to shed light on allegedly suspicious studies from the time of the Red Chancellor Werner Faymann and Christian Kern.
“What does that have to do with ÖVP corruption?”
Lindenmayr should provide information on a 2015 investigation. He asked, “What does that have to do with ÖVP corruption?”
weird debates
In the end, hardly any questions were allowed to be asked. Chairman Norbert Hofer (FPÖ) and examining magistrate Wolfgang Pöschl often saw no connection with the subject of the investigation. The representatives of the ÖVP continued to ask questions, which led to bizarre debates. The last person to provide information was Ostermayer.
The ÖVP asked him about the sky-high advertising costs under Faymann. Here again, the presidency and all other parties saw no connection. Ostermayer, who left the government in 2016, was unsurprisingly quickly fired.
Source: Krone
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