Chancellor Karl Nehammer is now also receiving heavy criticism from his coalition partner for his video in connection with the ‘ordinary’ debate. “It is an unacceptable trivialization of right-wing radicalism when right-wing radicals and climate activists are equated,” Lukas Hammer, spokesperson for green climate protection, wrote on Twitter. FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl finds the video “embarrassing”.
The ÖVP simmers the discussion about its controversial positioning with the term ‘normal’.
“Don’t let the words forbid us”
After Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen rebuked the parties for excluding language, Nehammer replied in a video on Friday: “We will not just let a few people ban the words.”
Green outraged
The fact that he called climate glue, identitarians and Islamist hate preachers in the same breath as ‘not normal’ in turn aroused the outrage of the Greens.
“Especially in a country that, because of its history, is particularly sensitive to this issue and has a well-armed right-wing scene,” noted climate protection spokesman Hammer.
Scheldt from Kickl as well
FPÖ boss Herbert Kickl finds Nehammer’s video “embarrassing” in any case. It is the next attempt to “fool the population”.
And Jürgen Czernohorszky, SPÖ councilor in Vienna, is demanding an apology from the chancellor via tweet (see below).
Nehammer: “Are you still normal?”
“This is not normal anymore. Are you still normal?” Nehammer greets his viewers in the video, immediately asking what “normal” actually is: “I’ll tell you who isn’t normal: that’s the extremes and the radicals. Whether they are left-wing extremists or right-wing extremists.” It is extreme if you put your opinion above that of others, if you disregard the rules and the law. “You have climate stickers or left-wing radicals, but also right-wing radicals or identitarians. They are Islamist hate preachers as well as vandals and other extremists,” the chancellor said.
As in his first statement after Van der Bellen’s scolding, Nehammer says again in the video that it is “okay if someone decides to cycle to work”, but “you have to stop giving motorists a bad conscience, especially since many depending on the car”.
The chancellor repeated his controversial and sometimes ridiculous Schnitzel-Sager (“And it’s just as good if someone decides to live vegan. But it must also be okay if others like to eat Schnitzel.”) in the video.
Source: Krone
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