failure vs. hysteria – inflation: SPÖ rumbles, Nehammer rumbles back

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The National Council started its last week before the summer holidays quite surreptitiously. SPÖ and ÖVP delivered a remarkably unfriendly inflation debate on Wednesday. Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) was also insulting from the government bench and accused the SPÖ of scaremongering and hysteria. The Social Democrats had submitted an “urgent request” for an electricity price cap.

That said party leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner, who accused the government of doing everything wrong for 20 minutes. From their point of view, a price cap that has halved prices in Spain and Portugal would be particularly urgent. Moreover, the energy companies should be released from their excess profits. This must be invested in the expansion of renewable energy.

SPÖ: Inflation threatens “foundation of social peace”
The SPÖ chairman emphasized that 1.5 million Austrians are already at risk of falling into poverty. The price hikes have already penetrated deep into the middle class, the ‘base of social peace in Austria’. Because when the middle class collapses, everything else collapses too.

Nehammer: SPÖ recipes don’t work
Nehammer was aggressive, underlining that the government had already drafted anti-inflation packages when the SPÖ didn’t even know it was going to be a problem. The ÖVP chairman finds the proposals of the Social Democrats inappropriate. A price cap just doesn’t work and also puts jobs at risk.

He accused the SPÖ of long overtaking the PVV in terms of populism. Try to scare people even more. With “half-truths and misinformation” new elections should be won. Right now, people don’t want division or strife, but rather certainty in leadership.

FPÖ railed against sanctions, NEOS against gas dependence
The FPÖ again opposed sanctions against Russia. Secretary General Michael Schnedlitz attributed the current situation to the “economic war” in which Austria was sent against Russia – at the cost of neutrality. NEOS boss Beate Meinl-Reisinger, on the other hand, acknowledged the problem in Austria’s heavy reliance on Russian gas, for which she blamed politicians from the PVV, but also the SPÖ and ÖVP.

Source: Krone

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