In the krone.tv interview with Conny Winiwarter, SPÖ deputy club leader Jörg Leichtfried defended the SPÖ’s blocking position with a two-thirds majority. They want to “use the blockade to lift the blockade in the ÖVP”.
You could call it blackmail, the SPÖ speaks of democracy. After the SPÖ’s demands on inflation were not followed, the Social Democrats are now resisting: if the demands are not implemented, a two-thirds majority will be blocked – and thus new laws. “We finally want something to happen,” Leichtfried defends the procedure.
“I’m Not That Gullible”
What is needed is the suspension of VAT on basic foodstuffs – and a regulation that forces companies to pass on the resulting price reductions. “I’m not so gullible as to think they’re going to pass it on.”
20 sausage rolls for cookers? “The Republic Will Stand”
Leichtfried does not understand that it is a measure with the watering can, as Minister of Labor Kocher always emphasizes. “People who earn as well as he does, don’t just buy 20 sausage rolls at once because they can.” And even if: “The Republic will bear it.”
‘Failures of the federal government must be clarified in the federal government’
Another demand of the SPÖ is the withdrawal of the target rent increase with retroactive effect. But why doesn’t the SPÖ do what it demands where it could – for example, in Vienna, which is led by the Reds? Leichtfried: “How come the communities to cope with the failures of the federal government? The failure of the federal government must be clarified in the federal government.” According to the SPÖ politician, the federal government should not shift its responsibility to the federal states.
Other explosive details, such as how the SPÖ stands for an unconditional basic income and whether they would go into a coalition with the ÖVP despite the current differences of opinion, can be seen in the video above.
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Source: Krone
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