Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler and Ministers Leonore Gewessler and Alma Zadić (Greens) celebrated the end of their party’s election campaign in Vienna on Friday. In their speeches they emphasized, among other things, climate protection.
If the Greens have less say after next Sunday’s National Council elections, there is a risk of a step backwards. “We are exactly on the right side of these answers,” Kogler said on Friday afternoon at Maria-Thérèsien-Platz in Vienna. In any case, the recent flood disaster has ensured that climate and nature protection are now higher on the agenda again.
In his speech, Kogler contrasted hope and solidarity with agitation, democracy with autocracy, a common Europe with the old nationalism and climate protection with the climate crisis. “When has there ever been such a strong faction government team in this republic?” the party leader asked. The Greens’ goal is to return to government.
“Stupid talk” at the FPÖ
Like other parties, the Greens also used their election campaign to criticize their political competition. The FPÖ was accused of “stupid talk” and of dreaming “of some kind of empire”. The ÖVP testified to Kogler’s ‘burner hysteria’ and the SPÖ was their ally in the concreting.
Gewessler had previously criticized the ÖVP’s comments about the flooding. “How can you not get grumpy with so much nonsense?” she asked. Zadić, in turn, warned about right-wing extremists: “We will not allow right-wing extremists and right-wing extremists to trample on our freedom and our democracy.”
Source: Krone
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