The OÖ-Pensionistenbund and the ÖVP emphasize a strict separation between club and party. The argument falters.
The Upper Austrian Senior Citizens Association advertises travel on its website. Adriatic Sea and Attersee. possible again in 2022. But what was there in Corona times? You got two million from a non-profit fund. There is excitement and a display.
Anyone who participates also participates in the party
The money may only be used for charitable purposes, not for celebratory purposes. The suspicion is there. Noteworthy: According to the application form, the Upper Austrian Seniors Association is a sub-organization of the ÖVP. Anyone who participates also participates. A strict division between the club and the party, as emphasized by ÖVP officials such as Senior Citizens’ Association president and ex-Governor Josef Pühringer or ÖVP General Secretary Laura Sachslehner, is hard to argue with. The department of Vice Chancellor Kogler (Greens), where the fund is located, monitors suspicious money flows.
What about the separation of club and party?
Pühringer first said that the personnel costs had been paid. That too is prohibited. Then he said he was wrong. He and the director of the Seniors Association emphasize that everything was used for club activities. The “Krone” asked: What activities? In the times of Corona there should have been no trips etc. And what about the separation of club and party? There was no answer.
Source: Krone
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