U-committee – Meinl-Reisinger criticizes “inglorious end”

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NEOS boss Beate Meinl-Reisinger denounces the “very inglorious end” of the corruption inquiry commission given the hiccups of recent days. “It’s a huge self-harm in my opinion, especially with Parliament reopening at the same time,” she said in the APA interview. In principle, the NEOS thinks it is good that the University committee stops, the energy must now be put into reforms.

Meinl-Reisinger regretted that the ÖVP’s corruption investigation committee had wanted to be brought “to a good, orderly conclusion”. Now it is noted that “the ÖVP no longer allows this”. It was an “inglorious spectacle”. Accordingly, the NEOS are also skeptical about the SPÖ and FPÖ’s announced application for a further extension – although of course that would require the approval of a government faction anyway, which is currently not the case.

“Unambitious” work of the turquoise-green coalition
That it was not possible to arrange another research day in the new year was a hiccup between different factions, but “in the end it is again up to the ÖVP that the work is torpedoed here”, Meinl-Reisinger stressed, referring to the upcoming state elections in Lower Austria. “They’re nervous,” she said, “but that’s not an argument for harming parliamentarianism in that way.” It is better to invest energy in reforms, she says. For example, one could bring the freedom of information law “to the parliamentary level and negotiate here instead of just behind closed doors in the federal government.”

Meinl-Reisinger assesses the actions of the turquoise-green coalition as “unambitious” and what is currently being said is “not enough to regain the confidence of the population”. You have the impression that the ÖVP and the Greens are “trying to throw money at every problem – “especially the loss of support among voters”, the NEOS boss criticized. At the moment, she sees no claim to turning bigger wheels with “joy of design”. The ÖVP is constantly “sweeping up the shards”, but the Greens also fall short on important points: “There is a participation of the Green government and we still don’t have a law to protect the climate.”

“The real climate glue is in the government”
Meinl-Reisinger accuses the government of not being ambitious enough when it comes to climate protection and the energy transition. “Our core problem at the moment is not that young people block traffic every now and then,” but “that we have a federal government that is not making any progress on that front.” The NEOS boss thinks the climate stickers protests are “the wrong tool, because I believe there is a need to build bridges and win more people over to this really big challenge”. But she would also like to see the ‘desperation’ of young people taken seriously. The demand for higher penalties for the climate stickers is “a populist focus on an afterthought”, Meinl-Reisinger argued, because “the core problem is that the real climate stickers are in government”. For the energy transition, it is not enough to “speed up the procedures a little”, but the federal government should oblige the federal states to make areas available and get “quick procedures” off the ground.

In times of multiple crises you need leadership and courage, Meinl-Reisinger again called for new elections. The NEOS would also like to be part of the government after the elections: You always have “the aspiration to shape” and also “the willingness to take responsibility”. Nearly 40 percent (800 respondents) also want to see NEOS in the next government – eleven percent “definitely”, another 28 percent “preferably”, according to a survey published Sunday by Peter Hajek for ATV. For a ten percent party, such encouragement is “a good sign,” Hajek testified to the pink. Voters would likely have three-party coalitions in mind.

Meinl-Reisinger, however, did not want to go along with the PVV: “We will not form a coalition with the FPÖ because we do not consider them capable of governing.” She would not commit to favoring the SPÖ and ÖVP, although she noted that the ÖVP “Humility has been lost” and therefore the opposition role “would do you good”. It would be the pink’s claim to “enable advancement through education and achievement”.

Meinl-Reisinger demands free childcare from the 1st birthday
In the education sector, NEOS demands a legal right to free childcare from the first birthday, including a hot lunch for each child. In addition, the NEOS wants a fundamental change in school funding according to a “chance index” and a legal right to an eleventh and twelfth school year for children with disabilities. Meinl-Reisinger defended the fact that, according to the Ministry of Education, about 85 percent of the rejections for further school attendance by young people with disabilities for the current school year are in Vienna, where the NEOS form the education council, by saying that the federal government does not provided the corresponding resources. You don’t solve that with an “artificial deficit” on the federal side, they played the ball back.

Incidentally, in Lower Austria, where elections will be held next Sunday, government participation is not an issue for NEOS. Meinl-Reisinger explained that proportional representation means that NEOS has the task of monitoring and ensuring that announcements are actually carried out. The goal is to grow, whatever the surveys predict. It’s about changing the understanding of politics in Lower Austria – because the ÖVP “is only about power and keeping power”.

Criticism of the handling of the Teichtmeister case
In view of the Teichtmeister case, Meinl-Reisinger called for investigative authorities to be given all the resources they need in the field of imaging child sexual abuse. In the discussion about harsher sentences, she warned against “always taking the easy actionist route”, but was quite willing to talk. Meinl-Reisinger has sharply criticized the way the Burgtheater handled the actor’s case: she would have immediately suspended the performance if she had made such allegations.

On the contrary, the fact that the actor was still playing major roles, “I can’t understand that”, emphasized the NEOS boss, “neither labor law nor moral”. Meinl-Reisinger thought it was “particularly bad” that Teichtmeister got away from the Burgtheater on the grounds that it was a revenge act by his ex-partner – “there seems to me to be a certain amount of chauvinism and machismo”.

Source: Krone

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