FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl is threatened with trouble for allegedly making false statements before the U-Commission. After the economic and corruption prosecutor WKStA wants to investigate him, parliamentarians must first vote for it. A majority in the National Council now seems certain.
The extradition of FPÖ party leader Herbert Kickl, requested by the Public Prosecution Service for Economic Affairs and Corruption (WKStA), is likely to receive a majority vote. Now the SPÖ has finally indicated that it will agree to the extradition request.
The reason for the request is accusations of suspicion of false statements in the U-Committee about the “red-blue abuse of power” and a complaint from ÖVP MP Andreas Hanger. NEOS did not want to comment on this and would wait for the immunity committee.
Told the untruth several times?
The accusation is that Kickl told untruths several times during his appearance before the investigative committee on April 11, including about the affair surrounding the Klagenfurt advertising agency Denkenschmiede, also about blue advertising companies and about Kickl’s relationship as Minister of the Interior with former FPÖ MP Hans Jörg Jenewein. .
The FPÖ saw Kickl’s appeal to the U-Commission as a “political maneuver”; he had made the statements as a member of parliament and was therefore immune.
ÖVP: Kickl measures with “double standards”
The ÖVP obviously saw things differently. Secretary General Christian Stocker said in a broadcast on Friday: “The Kickl-FPÖ likes to talk about double standards, and at the first opportunity they use them themselves. However, there is no alternative to the extradition of Herbert Kickl.”
The SPÖ also saw no connection with Kickl’s parliamentary activities and wanted to give the WKStA the opportunity to investigate. The ÖVP and SPÖ together have a majority in both the Immunity Committee and the plenary meeting.
Source: Krone
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