The situation on the Burgenland border is still tense. As reported yesterday, 55 SPÖ politicians from the districts of Neusiedl am See and Oberpullendorf sent an open letter to Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) and Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner (ÖVP). ÖVP Interior Minister Gerhard Karner is now responding to the SPÖ letter about refugees.
There were complaints about the unacceptable conditions in the border area due to the many arrests of refugees. At the same time, calls were made to relieve the executive. “I have a deep understanding of the insecurity and also some fear of the people of Burgenland related to the dramatic increase in illegal migration,” said Karner, who has been there several times this year. Many measures have been taken, many more are needed. In any case, you need a strong solidarity from those responsible for politics.
“Know Me Doskozil on a Line”
Karner therefore calls on all those responsible in the region to keep this dramatic issue out of the city council’s election campaign: “The situation is far too serious to start cheap party political actions,” said the ÖVP minister. There is no other way to understand that criticism would only go in a political direction.
He knows that he fully agrees with SPÖ Governor Hans-Peter Dosksozil about asylum procedures outside Europe or about robust protection at the external borders. On the other hand, SPÖ chairman Pamela Rendi-Wagner said a few weeks ago that there is no asylum problem. “Perhaps the SPÖ district organizations should also share their knowledge with the head of government in Vienna,” Karner said.
SPÖ state manager calls on Karner to resign
The answer from the SPÖ-Burgenland was not long in coming: “Karner’s reaction was not worthy of an ÖVP party secretary and a minister, he has now definitively disqualified himself and has to resign today, this is an insult to the people of Burgenland ” , asked state director Roland Fürst. For a year and a half there have been letters, invitations and tips from Burgenland to the interior ministers of the ÖVP, all of which have been ignored.
The fact that the minister is now “turning it into an election campaign” is just disgraceful and shows Karner’s incompetence”. If the minister were in Burgenland, he would surround himself only with ÖVP politicians who would tell him what he wanted to hear. He talks. neither with the inhabitants of Burgenland, nor with the state government.”Minister Karner does not have to worry about the SPÖ either, I discussed that days ago and submitted it in the Löwelstrasse”, concluded the SPÖ state manager.
Source: Krone
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