2023-11-18 23:41:12
VIENNA. In view of the Greens’ currently relatively poor poll numbers compared to the last National Council election, Kogler emphasized that since the Greens’ participation in the coalition, a lot of progress has been made, especially in climate protection, that the four previous governments had left behind.
The restructuring and modernization of industry with renewable energy sources such as wind power, solar power and, in the more distant future, green hydrogen is well on the way, with the involvement of industry. It is important to design environmental protection and climate measures in such a way that the poorest sections of the population in particular do not get into difficulties, but at the same time renewable forms of energy can be used more and more through market-compliant measures.
Kogler strongly condemns
Kogler strongly condemned the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 as terrorism. Israel’s self-defense must take place within the framework of international martial law.
“It is important to avoid placing the entire Muslim population under general suspicion”
The memory of the Lower Austrian ÖVP state governor Johanna Mickl-Leitner of Austria as a country that stands in a Judeo-Christian tradition and “Our thoughts today are also with the victims of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. This is a “breach of civilization” and an attack on our Christian-Jewish values.” Kogler considers this to be questionable, but does not want to commit to his assessment yet because he does not yet know the wording of the statement. From his point of view, it is clear that with such a statement one should not place the entire Muslim population in Austria under general suspicion of supporting Hamas. It is important to avoid placing the entire Muslim population under general suspicion. People of the Muslim faith who have been living here for a long time in particular must be assessed in a differentiated manner. In any case, anti-Semitism is not tolerated in Austria.
“There is no People’s Chancellor in the Austrian constitution.”
Kogler described the FPÖ, the main opponent in the European and National Council elections next year, as “right-wing extremist”. The term “people’s chancellor,” which FPÖ leader Kickl likes to use and which he would like to see himself as, does not exist in the Austrian constitution. According to the Austrian constitution, only the Federal President is elected directly by the people and the Austrian Parliament, said Vice Chancellor and Green Party leader Kogler, but not the Federal Chancellor.
After the election, the parties in parliament will have to form a government with a majority. Social media certainly also contributed to the apparent success of the FPÖ, as reflected in the surveys. Until recently, people always spoke of a bubble in which social media users found themselves, but today we have to say that something has burst. The truth about facts often falls by the wayside. ( , yenivatan.at, türkische- Allgemeine.de)
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