During the New Year’s meeting, Herbert Kickl outlined his desired chancellorship. The FPÖ leader tempered expectations with his frothy speech. Blue election promises, which Kickl himself calls ‘sacred’, must first be postponed.
Rarely has there been such a large police presence at an FPÖ event. Drones are used to monitor the overcrowded parking lots. Plus security checks at the entrance. Inside, 3,000 FPÖ fans sit between palm trees with Austrian flags. Much has changed since the FPÖ was given the mandate to form a government. Also Herbert Kickl.
What the FPÖ sympathizers experience at the traditional New Year’s meeting is an FPÖ leader who is already getting used to his role as chancellor: he was as frothy as he was confident. Anyone expecting the usual riotous speech at the start of the year was sure to be disappointed.
The blue boss made few pushy announcements, but more moderate tones. Kickl outlined how he envisions his chancellorship for Austria. “It was great when the candy coalition exploded,” he says euphorically. For him, ‘this background noise’ was ‘something like the liberal New Year’s concert’.
The promise of five good years will have to wait
Now a new “era of governance” should begin. He always wants to ‘serve pure wine’ to the Austrians. Because one ‘lie begets the next lie’, and that destroys the people’s confidence in politics. The FPÖ leader admits that he will not immediately be able to fulfill his “sacred promise of five good years”.
The budget woes are to blame: “This mess is taking up all the space with which we wanted to finance emergency aid, reward performance and create justice,” he explains several times.
In a first step, an EU deficit procedure could be averted because they “did not want any supervision from the European Union”.
He also explained his access to the EU: he will represent Austria at council meetings in the future. Kickl wants the “EU to enter a new phase – namely that of self-reflection” instead of being “a project of paternalism”. Here it is necessary to “get involved” and “discuss measures controversially”.
Source: Krone
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