Green Party leader and Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler angrily rejects alleged interventions in COFAG management. The NEOS had accused the Greens of friendliness in the context of the U Commission. Kogler emphasized on Friday that there had been “zero interventions” and that he “would not tolerate” the allegations.
NEOS MP Yannick Shetty accuses the Greens of urging COFAG management to accelerate a specific company’s application for Corona aid, based on emails from Kogler’s office. Kogler replied that it was “the other way around.”
NEOS and SPÖ publicly addressed problems with the payment of Corona aid at the time, which led to the question of whether it was actually “such a terrible fate”. “That was the reason for the request,” the vice chancellor justified the emails.
“I’m really angry that this has turned completely 180 degrees,” he said. This is the “bottom drawer”. Kogler called for a “reasonable debate.”
NEOS does not give in
Yet the NEOS stood by their criticism on Friday: Kogler spoke “of a completely different email flow from March 2021, which we never considered an intervention and is not related to the criticized case,” Shetty said.
“The email we are talking about is from November 2020 and in it an employee of the Kogler cabinet literally asks COFAG to speed up the process – in a completely different case.”
Source: Krone
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