Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) will deliver a speech “on the future of the nation” at 11 a.m. today. At the same time, this should be the starting signal for a future plan “Austria 2030”, in which experts, practitioners and politicians from different fields should participate in different constellations, as stated before.
Nehammer will define goals in his speech. In order to actually achieve this, the Chancellor has ordered that the necessary measures and projects be worked out in the coming weeks and months. Nehammer will deliver the speech at Vienna’s “Thirty Five” event venue on the 35th floor of the Twin Towers on the Wienerberg.
Experts: stock up on pegs, look at election 2024
For political pundits Thomas Hofer and Peter Hajek, Nehammer’s speech is an attempt to get off to a flying start – also with a view to the National Council elections in 2024. “This step is actually too late,” said Hofer . Because there is a clear need to catch up, “burdening” Nehammer’s role of chancellor and that of ÖVP boss.
“He’ll probably try to signal, ‘Here’s a real chancellor,'” Hajek said. Because he has not yet filled this role, “as evidenced by the polls in the fictional Chancellor Question,” the pollster said. It is also an attempt to “control the action”. The ÖVP boss will try to “hammer thematic pins outlining the 2024 election campaign”.
FPÖ with sharp criticism of the Chancellor
Contempt for Nehammer’s planned appearance came from the Party for Freedom in advance. This felt like the “twentieth fresh start for the increasingly unpopular chancellor,” Michael Schnedlitz, the blue general secretary, wrote in a broadcast. Fortunately, Nehammer’s plan for the future has an expiration date, as the “collapsing government” will be voted out no later than 2024.
Climate activists make demands of Chancellor
Beforehand, “Fridays For Future” made demands to the chancellor in an open letter. In it, the climate activists recall that more than 30,000 people across Austria recently took to the streets to end the “blockade of climate protection”. For example, the ÖVP demands the “immediate resolution of an effective climate protection law” and the “end of the systematic dilution, delay and prevention of climate protection measures”. Climate protection in Austria would not work without a strong climate protection law.
Greenpeace also participated in a broadcast. The ÖVP as a governing party has consistently blocked, delayed or watered down climate protection measures for the past 30 years, contributing to a further escalation of the climate crisis, it said. Greenpeace also called for a sanctionable law to protect the climate. Instead of “empty sentences”, courageous climate protection measures are needed.
Source: Krone
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