Styrian governor Hermann Schützenhöfer takes a remarkable step on Friday to “save” Good Friday for the evangelical believers: the holiday is swapped with Easter Monday.
This decision still hurts evangelical believers in the country: Good Friday has not been a holiday for them since 2019. To have time off, they have to go on vacation.
But the evangelicals are not giving up, this year the topic was brought up again at Easter – demanding that Good Friday be a holiday for everyone. Styrian governor Hermann Schützenhöfer (ÖVP) now picks up this ball.
“It is their highest holiday, this must be respected”
The evangelicals are “being wronged,” he says. “Since it is their highest holiday, it must be respected.” But Good Friday is also central to Catholics. That is why Schützenhöfer is proposing today at the state governor’s conference in Vorarlberg that Good Friday should be a holiday for everyone – in return, Easter Monday should no longer be.
“So it stays with the same number of days off.” The proposal is not without explosive content: since many people do not work on Good Friday, or only work for a short time, it would be the (long) Easter weekend for most Austrians.
Source: Krone
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