The flood disaster will also concern the National Council at its next meeting on Wednesday. Several parties want to submit applications. These include a right to exemption for emergency workers or a legal right to financial compensation in the form of an immediate payment.
The FPÖ demands the latter. “We need an immediate legal regulation that removes those affected from the role of petitioners,” said FPÖ party leader Herbert Kickl, who announced a similar motion. “In the past, victims of natural disasters often had to wait years for compensation or support payments, were unable to carry out urgently needed renovation work or had to take out loans, if they were granted a loan at all,” said Kickl. “in the spirit of the great strength of the community” hopes for the agreement of the other parties.
The SPÖ also hopes for coherence in the project, a legal clarification for firefighters and other volunteers that they do not have to go to work the next day. Club boss Philip Kucher said at a press conference on Tuesday: “It must not become an election campaign meeting.” That is why the SPÖ will not make an “urgent request”.
This does not prevent the Social Democrats from sharply criticizing the government for its current policies. The enormous budgetary burdens are on the one hand the result of the various crises, but are also the consequences of the actions or inactions of the coalition, according to Kucher.
SPÖ and NEOS call for the bankruptcy of the Minister of Finance
Finance spokesman Jan Krainer is again irritated that the finance minister has not yet met his demand for a cash flow collapse. For Kucher, it would be “a matter of respect and honesty to tell the population in advance what to expect.”
The NEOS also want to know Finance Minister Magnus Brunner (ÖVP) “how he envisions the restructuring of the budget,” deputy club president Nikolaus Scherak said at a press conference on Tuesday. However, he also stressed that, given the floods, “it is not time to move on with the agenda,” but that the current hour had already been set and there was no chance to change it.
Source: Krone
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