The political earthquake in Vienna also caused waves on Lake Neusiedl: After the brief resignation, Burgenland’s head of state Doskozil quickly called for new elections.
Former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced on Thursday – as reported in detail – his retirement from all political offices. He will duly hand over his offices in the next few weeks. Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (VP) is to succeed him, also in the Chancellery. There, Alexander Schallenberg is supposed to vacate the executive chair again after just 52 days.
Doskozil: “New elections”
Burgenland’s governor, Hans Peter Doskozil, is now the first to speak out against this flying castling.
Opposite to “Today” says the SP grandee: “It cannot be that people in the Republic of Austria swap positions at will and now occupy the next roles like in a puppet theater. The time has come to make tabula rasa and to say: Now let’s go in new elections. “
When should these take place? Doskozil: “I would be for new elections in the spring. The corona situation cannot be an excuse either. The government’s performance during the pandemic was not a good one with God. A new start should be made and the voters asked.”
“Government will continue to flounder”
The resignation does not come as a surprise to the eloquent SP politician, just the timing. In ORF Burgenland, Doskozil specified: “It’s not just about Sebastian Kurz as a person, but about a scandal that also shakes the ÖVP. Now an intermediate step has taken place, but it continues. The advertising affair is now being dealt with. We’ll see that it’s not just about a person, but that there is a system behind it. That should be kept in focus. “
As Chancellor, he saw Nehammer as a “counterpart to Herbert Kickl” in tactical terms on the migration issue. Postscript: “But how is migration policy supposed to do with the Greens according to its ideas? So it will be a government that floats around, that continues to argue. The population does not deserve that.”
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