At the beginning of the corruptionU-Committee, SPÖ parliamentary group leader Jan Krainer and NEOS parliamentary group leader Stephanie Krisper made it clear that the aim would be to show the system of corruption. For Krainer, for example, Nehammer’s questioning will show whether the chancellor is on the side of those who want to clean up or on the side of those who want to cover up.
NEOS faction leader Stephanie Krisper wants to address the question of how the system of the post hag was taken to the extreme and why it was not efficiently determined. “Why wasn’t there a closer look?” The NEOS are not about people but the systems behind them, she emphasized.
the U-Committee is the consequence of the canceled Ibiza-U-Committee, which was turned off by the ÖVP with the help of the Greens, just as the troupe got “under water” at Kurz, according to FPÖ parliamentary group leader Christian Hafenecker. In addition, it is important to enlighten the “deep state that the ÖVP has built”. This is based on three pillars, namely the ministries of finance, interior and justice, in which the ÖVP has established itself.
For Nina Tomaselli from the Greens, it has been shown that a “small circle of power” around Sebastian Kurz has deceived the whole country: “These young men have manipulated”, for example with “cooked polls”, job scams on a large scale or by “super rich one special treatments”. The files also showed that, in addition to entrepreneur Sigfried Wolf, real estate investor Rene Benko “had a special connection to the Ministry of Finance”.
The ÖVP saw it completely differently. As their faction leader Andreas Hanger emphasized, today’s survey of Nehammer is “relaxed”. After all, this one in the IbizaU-Committee played a subordinate role and “does not appear in the files”, if only “very marginally”. And Hanger immediately made the strategy of the ÖVP clear: Nehammer could only be questioned in his role as Minister of the Interior and not in his role as Secretary General of the ÖVP. Because parties can never be the subject of a parliamentary investigation U– be on the committee.
The parliamentary body set up by the SPÖ, FPÖ and NEOS is investigating “the granting of benefits to natural and legal persons associated with the ÖVP by federal bodies in the period from December 18, 2017 to October 11, 2021”. There are some thematic overlaps with the Ibiza U Committee, which was concluded in autumn. On the other hand, new allegations such as the advertising affair surrounding ex-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) are also included.
Ex-Finance Minister Eduard Müller and then the former politician and current operator of the online magazine “zackzack.at”, Peter Pilz, were invited on Thursday. For some time now, Pilz’ medium has been quoting from chats with the former head of cabinet in the Ministry of the Interior, Michael Kloibmüller, which will probably not be neglected in the survey.
