“I think there is some internal unrest within the Greens,” says former Green Party leader Madeleine Petrovic in the krone.tv interview with Jana Pasching. Demarcations and controversies against the Petrovic list or other parties are legitimate. “But to hit below the belt and insinuate that I surround myself with anti-Semites is scandalous.”
Green Club boss Sigrid Maurer had previously violently attacked Petrovic in the krone.tv interview: “Unfortunately, she has completely strayed”. And further: Just like with the Freedom Party, Petrovic would also have anti-Semites. Petrovic responded on Thursday: “This is scandalous as far as my entire background is concerned. My relatives are buried in the Jewish cemetery. That’s where everything stops. This also has consequences for everyone who works together on the Petrovic list. Because they don’t let anyone tell them that there are also anti-Semites hanging around there.”
“Where have the Greens gone?”
Petrovic has the impression that Mrs Maurer is always attacking others and accusing them of something. “Several people originally come from the Greens, like Tobias Schweiger from the KPÖ or the Salzburg candidate Dankl. She tends to chase people away.” But Petrovic has not changed, she explains in the lecture. “I stand behind the values of ecological basic democracy, solidarity and self-determination. I just wonder: where have the Greens gone?
“Maurer went too far”
Slander and personal insinuations: this should not be the style of a governing parliamentary party. Petrovic sees an approach that is very similar to that in the Schilling case: the party leadership also made mistakes in the Schilling case, they knew that there had been turbulence in the past and ignored it. “Then you have the salad in the public eye, which ultimately damages all parties.” Petrovic hopes that there are forces within the Greens who will say: “Maurer has gone too far, we cannot leave it like this.”
Petrovic doesn’t want to complain, even though she probably could: “But it’s not worth it to me.” Politics is a competition for the best ideas, which ultimately has to be decided by the people.
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Source: Krone
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