Due to high prices, the shreds are flying in the National Council: “Resign”

Rags will fly into the National Council on Friday due to persistently high prices. During a special session on inflation, the SPÖ launched sharp attacks against the turquoise-green government and tabled a vote of no confidence: “Mr. Chancellor, you have failed the people. I expect nothing more from you and your government, except your resignation,” said club president Pamela Rendi-Wagner.

The SPÖ leader thinks that the Greens “feel uncomfortable” in this coalition: “But that is not enough. Out of fear you stay with the coalition with the ÖVP. This makes you complicit. At some point, dear Greens, it will be enough. And someday it is now.” Rendi-Wagner also read a “Krone” comment by Michael Pommer for her speech (see tweet below).

Chancellor Nehammer responded impassively: “If the government has proven anything – it is resilient.” The government started with the motto “The best of both worlds” and the result was a “nightmare for the country”, Rendi-Wagner said at the beginning. of the Debate. The coalition drove Austria to despair: “Nothing more can be expected from you.”

Rendi-Wagner: SPÖ would intervene in rents
Even with the latest package, no price is reduced, the club president criticized. If people can no longer pay their bills and the middle class threatens to slip away, then the state will have to intervene externally in a market that no longer functions. That is the job of politicians: “It’s called a social market economy.”

If it is up to the SPÖ, a package must come quickly. The increases in the target value should be withdrawn and all rents frozen until 2025. In addition, the Social Democrats want a “powerful” anti-inflation commission.

NEOS boss Beate Meinl-Reisinger also accuses the government of not curbing inflation with a “watering can policy”, but of having fueled it. She is now demanding cuts in indirect labor costs.

Nehammer refers to purchasing power
In return, Chancellor Nehammer did not want any bad talk about his policies. After all, unemployment is low and purchasing power has been maintained. In addition, the gas storages are already 60 percent full with a view to the coming winter.

FPÖ boss Herbert Kickl sees the reference to an increase in purchasing power as an “expression of stupidity”: “Which PR consultant wrote that in the manuscript?” he asked Nehammer. It is about “poverty and not about purchasing power”.

Kickl sees the government’s pricing policy as a “trail of destruction” and “rotten fruit”. He describes the measures taken as a “patchwork”. The FPÖ would implement and brake VAT cuts “today”. Kickl concludes his speech: “Resign.”

Maurer speaks of “hypocrisy”
Greens club president Sigi Maurer called “hypocrisy” at the lectern in the National Council in her speech. To Kickl she shouted, “It is hypocritical to pretend to work for poor people.” The FPÖ lies to people to their faces. Blue social policy “points downwards”, the FPÖ is said to have proven in state and federal governments.

According to Nehammer, the government continues to serve the Austrians to fight inflation while ensuring that the location remains attractive for companies and industry. The head of government now wants to work for the energy companies. Because wholesale prices have long since fallen: “The problem is that it hasn’t been passed on.” All energy companies that continue to act in this way would therefore have to pay too high a profit tax.

ÖVP club president attacks SPÖ
ÖVP club president August Wöginger asked the SPÖ to introduce their no-confidence vote at Vienna’s city hall. Mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) has just raised the cost of food for children there. In Vienna, the costs of meals and childcare at urban after-school care and day schools will be increased by 10.5 percent from the autumn.

Wöginger mumbles: “Just stop your no-confidence vote and get involved constructively.” He admits that inflation is too high. Therefore, further measures have been taken. Like Chancellor Nehammer, Wöginger is also invoking a domino effect through a greater skimming of profits in the energy sector.