“Update overdue” – human rights: ÖVP bosses support Wöginger

Sagartz, who is also Vice-President of the European Parliament’s Human Rights Committee, said: “Nobody wants to change human rights arbitrarily. But for me it is very clear: the more than 70 years old human rights treaty needs an update on migration and we need to start this discussion as soon as possible.” “In addition, the old passages were very generously laid out, which led to long deportation processes and excessive immigration,” says Sagartz.

Sagartz: “People come from everywhere”
The state party president also calls for revision of the Geneva Refugee Convention: “The original text of the Geneva Refugee Convention was intended to help our closest neighbors in need. But now people from all over the world are coming to Europe and want access to our hard-earned social system. No one could have foreseen that at the time.”

Drexler had made a similar statement. “Yes, he is right. When it comes to also being able to discuss the European Convention on Human Rights,” he said about Wöginger’s initiative and further: “I am less concerned with the text of the 1950 ECHR. But you see the continued further interpretation by the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg as a judiciary that has become independent, which raises the question of democratic legitimacy.”

Drexler: Asylum practice is “a real perversion”
One should “think what a cover would find in a contemporary version of the text,” Drexler said. “It may be necessary to re-codify to evaluate what has emerged about the mode of interpretation, possibly to include or reject it in the text. It is legitimate to have a discussion about it.” Current asylum practice is “an outright perversion of the original idea of ​​asylum”.

For the convention of Edtstadler and Zadic “non-negotiable”
Constitutional Minister Karoline Edtstadler (ÖVP) and Justice Minister Alma Zadic (Greens) had previously described the European Convention on Human Rights as “non-negotiable”. Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen also joined this debate on Monday: The ECHR is a great human achievement, a compass for humanity and part of the basic consensus of the republic, he wrote on Twitter. This questioning does not solve any problem, but rather shakes the very foundations on which our democracy rests.

In a broadcast on Tuesday, Catholic Action Austria also called on all political leaders to take action against “the hammering on the foundations of the European Convention on Human Rights”.