On Monday morning Heinz-Christian Strache was a guest on “Café-Puls” breakfast television. There he spoke about the resignation of Sebastian Kurz.
In 2019 Heinz-Christian Strache (then FPÖ) had to resign as Vice Chancellor. The Ibiza video ended the political career of the militant politician. A year and a half later, Sebastian Kurz, the man from the federal government who had dissolved the coalition with the FPÖ following the video publication, had to resign.
On Monday morning, Strache spoke about the Chancellor’s case on “Café Pulse” breakfast television. He admitted that he had telephone contact with Kurz after the resignation speech. He felt no satisfaction, explained Strache, and there was no reason to be malicious. But: “One can perhaps say that Sebastian Kurz reaps what he has sown and that there is such a thing as karma”.
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“I wished him all the best”
After the resignation there was a “short telephone contact”, according to Strache. “Personally, I wished him all the best, despite all the political differences that we have always represented and we discussed a human level, namely that the most important thing in life is ultimately the family,” said a visibly composed Strache with regard to the coming joys of fatherhood of the soon-to-be ex-chancellor.
Strache describes Kurz’s resignation as a “reverse trick”, because Kurz did not completely withdraw from politics, and that although “Ibiza” is only an island in the Mediterranean compared to the current allegations, Strache quotes ORF star political scientist Peter Filzmaier.
In this context, Strache once again made it clear that Kurz broke his promise in the wake of “Ibiza”. This is said to have promised the Freedom Party to continue the coalition in the event that Strache resigns from all political offices.
Without the Rendi initiative, Kurz would still be Chancellor
Strache sees the attempt by Pamela Rendi-Wagner to form a coalition of four as positive. This was done out of responsibility “for Austria”. The SP leader “jumped over her shadow”. Only then did the matter move, Kurz finally had to resign, believes Strache.
Doskozil’s statement that Kurz’s “sidestep” is comparable to Vladimir Putin’s actions is “far-fetched”. Sebastian Kurz has the democratic right to go to parliament, after all, he went into the 2019 National Council election as the top candidate.
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