“Leonore Gewessler is the Herbert Kickl of the Greens,” ÖVP general Christian Stocker said last week on “krone.tv”. Gewessler angrily rejects the comparison. “Herbert Kickl is a demagogue who is not interested in solutions. Sorry, I can’t find any similarities.”
Gewessler does not comment on the fact that ÖPV boss Karl Nehammer excludes her as a minister in a future government. “I am asking for an extension.” The voters will decide who will be in the next government. Asked if Nehammer avoided her, she said: “We have actually only seen each other briefly in the last two weeks,” but that was because of the European Football Championship and the dates. “We will make up for that.” .
“We take environmental protection seriously”
Gewessler says she is only doing it with the renaturation regulation on the grounds of nature conservation. “It is about giving nature a little space to breathe. The decision is a victory for nature on the entire continent.” The Greens use their appearance for self-promotion: “You can see that the Greens take environmental protection seriously.”
At last it also did it alone
She rejects the accusation of breaking the law: “I chose a legally compliant path that Agriculture Minister Norbert Totschnig (ÖVP) has already chosen. But no one spoke to him about breaking the law,” she recalls, recalling Totschnig’s solo effort to reduce climate and environmental protection measures at EU level.
Gewessler does not want to ‘cover up’ the continued dependence on Russian gas. “The most expensive thing for our economy is our dependence on Vladimir Putin.” One of the reasons why we fail is due to resistance in the economy, but the SPÖ has also called them to account for not passing the biogas law in the National Assembly. Council last week. A two-thirds majority was needed for that.
Source: Krone
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