Nehammer on debate: – ‘Must be good if other people eat schnitzel’

What happened? Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen used his opening speech as an opportunity to address the recent verbal clashes between the two governing parties ÖVP and the Greens over the debate on “normal thinking people” and to warn that society should not adapt to ” exclusive language”. to get used to.

‘Not normal to debate normality’
This speech does not go uncommented. In a statement about the “normal” debate that had begun, Chancellor Karl Nehammer made the following statement: “The Federal President and I are in regular contact. We get along very well. He raised a substantive issue. In this case I maintain: it is important to be able to name normality in Austria. I have said before that I do not think it is normal that there is a big debate about normality at all.”

“People should find themselves in their diversity”
He also thinks it is “important to take into account that people simply have to agree with their diversity, also in politics. It is our job as those with political responsibility, as the federal government and me as chancellor, to make politics for the many, not to mention the few. The problem is with the extremes, such as the right-wing extremists and the left-wing extremists, who then, as it were, leave the middle. If the exception suddenly becomes the rule, the majority no longer feels represented.”

It’s okay to describe normality. “And it is important that we make politics for the many and not forget it for the few. It’s okay if someone decides to bike to work, but someone who has to drive shouldn’t feel guilty. And it’s okay if someone decides to go vegan. But it must also be good if others like to eat schnitzel,” said the Chancellor.