Migration, debt, healthcare, federal politics – a few days before the state elections in Burgenland, the six top candidates faced each other in the TV duel between ‘Krone’ and PULS24.
Burgenland, the sunny side of Austria – the promising image that tourist advertisements paint of the Pannonian holiday paradise did not quite hold up in the TV confrontation between the top candidates for Sunday’s state elections. The general mood among the six opponents as they welcomed them to the Puls4 studio in Vienna was almost welcoming.
But in the aftermath of the elephant round, the opposition parties allowed dark clouds to gather over the red ‘pachyderm’, Governor Hans Peter Doskozil, and his sole SPÖ government.
“Loose practice”
FPÖ parliamentarian Norbert Hofer attacked him directly on the central issue of migration. “As if beamed to Earth from the spaceship Enterprise, State Police Director Doskozil marched 180,000 refugees across the border into Nickelsdorf. This separate practice cost 150 million euros per month in care in Germany and Austria.” That was in the summer of 2015. “Hungary brought the refugees to the Austrian border at the time, that was a fact. Later I saw an FPÖ interior minister, Herbert Kickl, who also did not deport the refugees,” Doskozil countered.
humanity and order
His conclusion in the postscript: “Hungary does not care about the European system and contradicts the basic rules of the EU.” Anja Haider-Wallner of the Greens spoke, saying “It takes humanity, but also order.” The entrepreneur made it clear that the obligation for migrants to work should not be an incentive for the social hammock.
Fuss about blue and black
A brief turn to federal politics: Doskozil was extremely satisfied with the withdrawal of the Social Democrats from the coalition negotiations. “It took the federal government three months to verify the budget deficit and now Blue-Black only needs three days to prepare a budget. “What is happening here is no longer realistic,” said Burgenland’s SPÖ boss.
However, the fear hangs over him like a sword of Damocles that the FPÖ and ÖVP could also enter into a coalition at state level if he no longer wins the almost 50 percent of the last elections in 2020 and thus loses the majority in the state. parliament. The possible blue-black move is no longer a secret. “Hofer had already announced this,” Doskozil noted.
Criticism of debt
In response, the FPÖ top candidate promptly targeted the SPÖ’s “debt and purchasing policy.” Hofer no longer wants to let the state holding company get away with it with many investments. “Today’s debts are tomorrow’s taxes. “That must change now,” the PVV emphasized. ÖVP regional chairman Christian Sagartz agreed. He describes the holding company as “bloated”. “Why were 200,000 bottles of champagne bought by an ailing company? Why was a wedding planning company supported? There are no criteria in this economic policy,” Sagartz criticized. There was also criticism of excessive spending when it came to the topic of ‘care’.
Doskozil asked all opponents to “please stick to the truth!” Despite all the harshness in sunny political Burgenland, the comment by ‘Krone’ editor-in-chief Klaus Herrmann, who led the confrontation with PULS24 Info boss Corinna Milborn, was justified. -on: “The defending champion laughs and apparently gets to choose his partner.”
Source: Krone
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