The “Initiative Joint Deciding” (IGE) is making people sit up and take notice with numerous new referenda and votes: “Should there be an upper limit for cash payments in Austria in the future”, it says in the registration week from April 17 to 24. In an interview with Gerhard Koller on krone.tv, co-initiator Werner Bolek emphasized that he would be “sure that such a future border would only be the preparatory stage for the complete abolition of cash”: “But people would be completely can be verified as future payments can only be made electronically. That is an insult.”
But not only cash is a problem in the referenda, also the protection of the “independent judiciary”. The ‘yes or no’ votes on the ORF GIS fee, Austria’s neutrality or a possible exit from the EU of our country were also very useful: ‘We are only concerned with direct democracy, not with politics,’ says Bolek , one of them does not want to promote FPÖ demands or become politically active”.
The aim of all referenda is only to finally allow direct democracy in Austria again and to involve people directly in decision-making processes: “The registration week is a good opportunity for the population to show who makes the decisions in this country”.
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