In the middle of the election campaign, Green EU candidate Lena Schilling is facing serious accusations: the 23-year-old was banned by the court from spreading rumors about one of her former best friends. The Greens commented on this during a short press conference on Wednesday morning.
The ‘Standard’ reported on the affair on Tuesday evening. Schilling claimed that one of her friends was beaten by her husband, even causing the victim to have a miscarriage. According to the media report, she had to appear in court in this case on April 12. She therefore agreed not to make any statement in the future that the disputed value would amount to 20,000 euros.
After the allegations were published, the Greens called a press conference on Wednesday morning. In addition to Schilling, Green Party leader Werner Kogler, deputy federal spokespersons Leonore Gewessler and Stefan Kaineder and club president Sigrid Maurer were on site.
Schilling said these allegations call her character into question. “What I allegedly said or did has nothing to do with politics,” the politician said. Criticism of them is expressed ‘on a personal level’. “But I won’t let this discourage me.”
Kogler locates sexist backgrounds behind attacks
Kogler suspected that Schilling was attacked because she is a woman. “At this level and dimension, men are not affected by such criticism. He identified ‘rumours’ behind the accusations and backed the EU’s Green leading candidate.
Gewessler emphasized that she had been warned before entering politics: “Politics is a dirty business” and that many “terrible things” had also happened to her. It shocked her how ‘uninhibited’ she was […] the “campaign” was waged against Schilling. “Lena, you are a wonderful woman,” the minister explained that she was still convinced of the 23-year-old.
Source: Krone
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