Peace, joy, wrong thought! In the coalition negotiations in Niederösterreich, things are currently in perfect order. The SPÖ sees five conditions that the ÖVP can hardly meet as the lower limit for a coalition agreement. The ÖVP lacks – probably because of this – the necessary seriousness in the talks.
It was impaled in negotiations between the People’s Party and the Social Democrats after the state elections. First observers worry whether the two factions can come to an agreement before the March 23 parliamentary session. Things have been going well in the government district since the advance of the SPÖ on Friday. Job security, a heat price ceiling, childcare, employment for caring relatives and regionalization from doctors’ surgeries to police stations to postal partners and the Internet – these five key points are the SPÖ’s lower limit for a pact with the ÖVP.
State-level federal dispute?
Negotiations resumed on Tuesday, but they have been put on the spot. This caused unrest in the ranks of the ÖVP. The “virtually unaffordable job guarantee” and the realization that the Reds could befriend the “opposition role” are stumbling blocks. “I feel that some in the SPÖ are trying to bring the current dispute over the leadership of the federal SPÖ into the country. By deliberately erecting fixed barriers to join the opposition,” explains chief negotiator Jochen Danninger.
ÖVP hopes for “constructive forces”
One hopes, that very soon the constructive forces of Lower Austrian Social Democracy will prevail. According to Danninger, the implementation of the SPÖ demands document requires the ÖVP to give up essential basic principles – and it is unlikely to play that role. In addition, time is of the essence. “In the coming days it should become clear which way things are going”, one hears from ÖVP circles.
SPÖ speaks of “productive talks”
“Today’s talks about our lighthouse projects and their financing have been productive,” said SPÖ club president Hannes Weninger. “Our core requirements, if we also take counter-financing into account, are less than 3 percent of the state budget,” he adds. For the ÖVP, however, the same calculation leads to a different result. . .
An ÖVP pact with the currently remarkably quiet FPÖ can no longer be ruled out. Only then with Johanna Mikl-Leitner? As is well known, the Blues do not want and will not elect Mikl-Leitner as governor of the state.
Source: Krone
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