Following the warning words of Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen on the edge of the Bregenz Festival, Lower Austrian governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner identified a “distraction battle” over the word “normal”. “And that is exactly what the silent majority of the population no longer considers normal,” the ÖVP politician said on Thursday.
“It is a strange development in our country when the vast majority of the population is constantly admonished with a raised index finger, while individuals can do whatever they want. the big stage was discussed, on this very stage proves itself,” Mikl-Leitner said in a written statement. While the word “normal” has been chewed through “by some circles” for weeks and broken into its separate parts, “talking about what really matters” is avoided, the abutment criticized.
For example, “how people can still create property and not how we can take it away from them” and “how we can create a socially just equilibrium without fueling mutual envy” should be discussed. “This all belongs on the big stage. Instead, we see the ‘diversion fight’ over the word ‘normal’ continue,” said Mikl-Leitner.
Particularly sharp words from Van der Bellen
In Bregenz on Wednesday, Van der Bellen sharply criticized the “distraction struggle for terminology and interpretation sovereignty”, as well as populism. The Federal President had also – without naming the parties – alluded not only to disputes between the ruling parties in the federal government, ÖVP and Greens, but also to “the people”, the FPÖ claimed, and “our people”, most recently in the focus of the SPÖ, called.
Source: Krone
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