Kogler in an interview: – Red-turquoise-green would be “at least a possibility”.

“I don’t comment on rumors,” Kogler said when asked about alleged considerations in the ÖVP about voting in the spring. “There are rumors that several sensible people are behind – I haven’t been able to discover that many,” Kogler said in the APA interview. “I’m saying what I think is logical, which is voting at the end of September as planned.” He would like to see an alliance of constructive parties against the advance of the FPÖ – also for the period after the elections.

Vice Chancellor: “We have made so much progress despite crises
There is still a lot to do, for example in the field of ecological conversion of industry and social housing. There has never been a government that has “made as much progress” as this one, despite the region’s many crises, and “as long as that is the case, it makes sense for it to continue,” Kogler says. The Vice Chancellor also recalled what has been achieved so far: for example, the valorization of social benefits is “a milestone of the century”, as well as the abolition of cold progress.

The FPÖ is currently leading all investigations. Has he already reached an agreement with FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl as chancellor? “I don’t agree with anything that harms Austria. And the danger is enormous.” Kickl himself mentions Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as a role model – media freedom there is “restricted beyond recognition”, the country is “completely neglected” and is “corrupt at the top”, Kogler criticized. “You can imagine how it works at the Blues, with all those Haberers who are always quick to help.”

Red-turquoise-green “at least a possibility”
“This is pure right-wing extremism, and that is dangerous for liberal democracy.” He wants to raise this issue and also enter into discussions with other parties, representatives of civil society, religious communities, trade unions and companies. It is important that those who can offer alternatives treat each other in such a way that they can talk and work together reasonably well during the election movement “and especially after an election,” Kogler said. Is this a sign that the Greens want to be part of a government with the SPÖ and ÖVP? We’ll see how the explorations go, “but yes, it’s at least a possibility,” Kogler explains.

The climate protection law should come in the last months of the current legislative period, Kogler assured again. He is still confident because all other climate protection measures “always involved drilling hard plates”, but in the end the results have come. There is agreement within the federal government on the soil protection strategy, but individual states “remain in a blockade”. The argument that the target value of a maximum of 2.5 hectares of land use per day would prevent the construction of social housing is, according to Kogler, “not correct” – in total, so many areas have already been built up that this problem “represents a white population” . lie”.

Kogler wants higher fines for defaulting on the balance sheet
If the balance sheets are not prepared correctly, higher fines should be imposed. In addition, corporate law must be tightened to such an extent that “much more must be disclosed from the start,” Kogler demands. The work of former Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer (SPÖ) for Signa “smells of serious incompatibility”, says the leader of the Green Party.

“If you refuse to provide financial statements, the fines are multiplied,” Kogler explains. The current level is far too low: “That’s not even change,” the leader of the Green Party emphasized. “That’s just blown out of proportion.” Although there are often ‘almost reflexive’ calls for higher penalties in many areas, Kogler is convinced that it is having an effect here: ‘That it is so little and that those who pay it like it It now looks like we have to replaced by the Signa company, which in turn deducts it from taxes – so that is really perverse and we must do everything we can.”

Kogler also wants regulations so that in the future “there will be no more legal shelters due to certain social structures.” It should no longer be possible ‘to build such a billion-dollar structure to hide’. This “really needs to be renovated and cleaned up,” says Kogler, and “we are going to do that too.” Thanks to its nested nature and despite its enormous size with more than 1,000 companies, Signa has always managed to avoid having to present a consolidated balance sheet.