The SPÖ is still disappointed with the outcome of Sunday’s energy crisis cabinet meeting and now wants to go on the attack. They will “not give up and not increase the pressure on the government,” party leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner said at a news conference in Innsbruck on Wednesday. One tool would be a special session of the National Council in the summer, at the request of the SPÖ, Rendi-Wagner said when asked.
“That is always a consideration and is never excluded,” the federal party leader said of a possible extracurricular meeting of parliamentarians. In any case, the Social Democrats have not only a plan against inflation, but also a plan to put additional pressure on the failing federal government at the political level. At the moment she “doesn’t want to say everything yet”, Rendi-Wagner explained at the joint press conference with the Tyrolean SPÖ boss Georg Dornauer.
Sharp criticism of the federal government
The party leader again went to court with the federal government. Turquoise-green is “just behind” when it comes to price increases and inflation and is not even willing to consider concrete countermeasures: “It only controls what it can’t do”. Often even the will to attempt to take control is not recognizable.
“The federal government has no plan. We have a plan,” Rendi-Wagner explained, again presenting the red five-point plan against inflation, which includes an energy price cap, a temporary suspension of VAT on food and a cap on fuel prices. Minister of Economic Affairs Martin Kocher (ÖVP) is massively in default on this last point. The latter had to intervene and the VAT on fuel had to be suspended. The price law allowed fuel prices to drop immediately by about 20 cents. “It cannot be that a minister ignores the law,” criticized Rendi-Wagner. After all, you would pay 20 cents too much per liter in Austria.
Nehammer chairman debate ‘a symptom’
The party leader described media reports of an alleged chairman or chancellor debate about Karl Nehammer in the ÖVP as “a symptom”. It is a “problem of the ÖVP”, which is at the same time a problem of the government – and thus a “problem for the country”. “70 percent of the people in our country no longer trust this federal government. This government is incapable of taking action,” Rendi-Wagner summed up as expected.
Source: Krone
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