The Freedom Susanne Fürst apparently belongs to the “smaller circle” of those in the FPÖ who want to fight incumbent Alexander Van der Bellen in the federal presidential election campaign. And she is already positioning herself: she criticized Van der Bellen on Tuesday before the start of the surveys in the ÖVP investigation committee, where she belongs to the blue team.
Asked about a candidacy, she said: “I clearly belong to the narrower circle of candidates” that party leader Herbert Kickl had considered.
Decision “in the near future”
A decision will be made “within the foreseeable future” who should play against Van der Bellen from the blue ranks. It is still open internally, she emphasizes. What is needed is “a good candidate” who covers the content of a topic, whether it is male or female.
Fürst also criticizes FPÖ-like “different standards”
Fürst’s criticism specifically related to Van der Bellen’s statements in Monday’s ORF “ZiB2”. There, the Federal President had criticized the behavior of the liberal protagonists in the Ibiza video, but in the ÖVP survey affair, the presumption of innocence applies to the head of state. It was “quite surprising how clearly he uses different standards,” said the blue MP.
Fürst thought it was not unusual for her to shoot Van der Bellen unsolicited before the U-committee was questioned about the legal dispute. The Federal President’s statements would have influenced committee matters, she argued.
Source: Krone
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