The “Audi A8 affair” around State Secretary Sepp Schellhorn hit waves. The “Kroon” asked which service cars are the blue and black styric state government, two members have brand new authorities. In the city of Graz, in turn there is no fleet anymore.
An Audi A8 lets the waves go up: although the new service of the Neos -State Secretary Sepp Schellhorn of the Republic is supposed to be cheaper, it soon became a symbol of an observed decade of high politics.
Well, with which vehicles are the styric state gouses on the road? Asked the “crown”. First of all: an Audi A8 is not part of the fleet, only ÖVP State Headmad Deputy Manuela Khom is also on the road with an Audi, but with an A6. He was only registered on October 17 of the previous year, but there are already 34,000 kilometers on the speedometer.
80,000 kilometers in one year
Governor Mario Kunaseek (FPö )’s car is already 234,000 kilometers! He took over the Mercedes E from his predecessor Christopher Drexler. The fact that admission was less than three years ago shows how many politicians are in the country.
In addition to Kunasek, Health Councilor Karlheinz Kornhäusl (ÖVP) also has a Mercedes (300 Diesel), earlier ex-state councilor Juliane Bogner-Strauß. According to his office, Kornhäusl covers 80,000 kilometers every year.
“A new vehicle was explicitly not a wish”
The rest of the state governance relies on BMW: agricultural council member Simone Schmiedtbauer (ÖVP) has a 5-series Hybrid with which she has seen 51,000 kilometers since June 2024. Both traffic trailer Claudia Holzer and Bildungslandsrat Stefan Hermann (both Fpöte (both Fpött) XDrive. Last year.
The BMW 540D of the social councilor Hannes Amesbauer (FPö) is only one month old. “A new vehicle was explicitly not a wish of him. However, the lease contract went, and therefore the responsible authority of the country referred us to the need for an exchange,” said a spokesperson.
The responsible authority is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2. According to his head of Christine Klug, an upper limit of 74,500 euros (including VAT and Nova) applies to service stories, “the acquisition values used for current lease contracts are considerably below this upper limit”. The exchange takes place in almost all cases when a lease contract ends. The politicians also have a deductible, at Hermann it is around 800 euros per month.
Only two service cars in Graz
In the Graz state capital you can no longer speak of a vehicle fleet. The government members and other mandatars are available for only two 3-series BMWS but only for travel within the city from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Outside these times, taxis, public transport and private vehicles are mandatory.
This year it was reduced from two to three service cars, after a driver retired, reports Mayor Elk Kahr (KPö )’s office. This leads to savings of more than 100,000 euros per year.
Source: Krone
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