The NEOS does not believe in the polyphonic demarcation of the ÖVP from the PVV under Herbert Kickl. “The shameful spectacle of the ÖVP not wanting to form a coalition with the Kickl-FPÖ is one thing above all: unbelievable,” NEOS Secretary General Douglas Hoyos said in a broadcast on Saturday. He recalled the ÖVP-FPÖ coalitions that were forged this year in Lower Austria and Salzburg.
In both cases, the distaste for a blue government partner was reminiscent of the statements “which the spin doctors have now prescribed as language rules for the ÖVP representatives,” said the secretary general of NEOS. “Mikl-Leitner decided even after the songbook affair to exclude the collaboration with Udo Landbauer. Wilfried Haslauer literally said that his current government partner and deputy as governor Marlene Svazek has ‘Kickl in his luggage’, Hoyos summed up the statements of those ÖVP governors who, despite all pre-election protests, now form a coalition with the Kickl- FPÖ.
“Transparent election campaign”
In any case, the ÖVP’s “transparent election campaign” will not achieve its goal, the secretary general of NEOS was sure, because: “Anyone who lies once will not be trusted.”
The People’s Party continued to spin its carousel of rejections on Saturday. This time it was defense spokesman Friedrich Ofenauer who stated on account of “Sky Shield” that “Herbert Kickl took a wrong-riding course on security policy” and identified FPÖ internal resistance to it. FPÖ spokesman Volker Reifenberger immediately rejected this: “It doesn’t matter how many times the ÖVP claims that the FPÖ disagrees on this issue – it’s not true!”
Source: Krone
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