The Senate of the Independent Party Senate (UPTS) has imposed sensitive penalties against ÖVP, Neos and Greens, mainly because of the donations of forbidden parties. The worst affected the greens, which must increase more than 100,000 euros. All three parties have announced a complaint.
The basis of the fines is a report from the Court of Auditors of the previous year, which related to various social media accounts in government offices. The RH saw that employees of the departments also wrote party -political content as a non -evil party donation. The UPTS now arrived and imposed its pee.
Nehammer -Pages bring 50,000 euros in fine
The ÖVP is hit by the social media activities of the former Chancellor Karl Nehammer. In its current decision, the Senate states that there was a coverage of personnel costs for the social media account that was operated by the ÖVP as the media owner. This non -evil donation is with 50,637 euros punished. Once more 6000 euros Is – in this case with the upper Austrian Öaab – because a donation was reported late.
Kogler and Zadic have also hit
The same violation concerns the green lower Austria, the 7000 euros To afford to do oven. Bitterer are the upper decisions for the party with regard to the social media activities of the former Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler and former Minister of Justice Alma Zadic. 57,803 euros are prescribed for Kogler, 40,215 euros For Zadic. Here too, an unacceptable donation is accepted because of party -political messages.
The municipality of Vienna has also “donated” inadmissibly
The Neos are also affected by the former Vice -Mayor Christoph Return. He accepts an unacceptable donation from the municipality of Vienna in the form of hiring personnel and material costs for supporting social media accounts. The scope of punishment is 70,956 euros.
The Court of Auditors also found a violation at Burgenland -Governor Hans Peter Doskozil (Spö) when it comes to his Facebook account. However, the UPS sets the procedure here.
Legal clarification planned
The Spö is still there when it comes to a new regulations for the regulations. It is an area that is not regulated by law in Austria and is not yet fully constructed, according to a joint sending of the four parties.
There is a gray area between “this unclear legal situation and contemporary political communication practices”, which may have far -reaching negative consequences at all levels to explain to the municipal level because of the legal interpretations of the Court of Auditors and UPTS.
In order to obtain legal certainty for all involved, the federal government had already started developing a clear, practical and clear legal basis. The greens would also be available for the development of one. A corresponding legislative initiative must be decided as soon as possible.
Source: Krone
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