In the smoldering leadership debate of the SPÖ – tempered by the election campaign in Carinthia – the second president of the National Council, Doris Bures, was recently brought into play as party leader. Instead, she now demonstratively supports the SPÖ chairman. In an interview, she also clearly criticizes the way in which the chairman of the National Council, Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP), carries out his duties.
Doris Bures still shows no ambitions for the SPÖ presidency, but rather expresses her “full support” for Pamela Rendi-Wagner in an interview with the “Tiroler Tageszeitung”. This is “a strong character and combative woman.” Bures insists: “One or the other will grit their teeth”. That can be understood at the top against the Burgenland SPÖ governor Hans Peter Doskozil, who shows increasingly clear ambitions for the chairman of the federal party.
Sobotka’s actions “damaged Parliament”
The Red politician is particularly critical of Wolfgang Sobotka. The fact that he himself chaired the ÖVP’s corruption investigation committee “damaged parliament and this instrument of scrutiny,” she stressed. Sobotka currently ranks last in the APA/OGM trust index. “Wolfgang Sobotka is accused of not acting with the independence and impartiality in many areas that one would expect from a chairman of the National Council,” said Bures.
A parliamentary speaker must not only be “an irreproachable person” but also be “rooted in parliamentarism”. And it is “probably not a coincidence that for the first time we have a president who was not previously a member of the National Council,” said the SPÖ politician.
Bures lacks the “seriousness” of the ÖVP
In general, the second chairman of the National Council dislikes the way the ÖVP is handling the second highest office in the state – also that Elisabeth Köstinger acted as a kind of placeholder for a short time before Sobotka chairman of the National Council became. She had “hoped at the time that the ÖVP would approach this office with the necessary seriousness. Unfortunately, I learned better,” said Bures. That was “an expression of disrespect for Parliament” at the time.
When asked about the club requirement, Bures argues that “the conscience of the individual MP should be taken into account in the parliamentary process” when it comes to matters of conscience.
Source: Krone
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