It was actually the start of the Salzburg SPÖ’s election campaign for the state elections on April 23. Federal party leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner had arrived, as had ex-Chancellor Christian Kern. They all wanted to support the red top candidate David Egger. But Kern’s speech in particular revolved around the People’s Party and the Blues, and of course the pact that the two parties have now concluded in St. Pölten.
With the FPÖ, one should not forget “where they actually come from and what understanding of politics and democracy they stand for,” said the ex-Chancellor, according to “heute”. “Actually, you have to ask the ÖVP here what they thought about entering into this alliance.” The agreement is an “incredible case”.
In Lower Austria, the ÖVP had decided “to form a coalition with a party that has prominent members in its ranks who deny the Holocaust, who came up with the idea of registering Jews, who are of the opinion that disaster relief should go to the Poorest should not be operated. And who, after three beers at the latest, are in each other’s arms and interpreting the Hitler salute to one another.”
That’s not something “where we should go back to business as usual,” Kern hacked away. A party that bears responsibility must know that “there is no government to be made with these people.”
It is particularly absurd that the “Party of Impfschwurbler und Entwurmer” is now getting the health department in Lower Austria from the ÖVP. Kern also sharply attacked the corona compensation in the form of a 30 million pot for those who would have gotten “a ween under their nose” from the mask. That was “please unbearable,” said the former Chancellor. All this only happened because they wanted to resist childcare in Lower Austria demanded by the SPÖ.
The FPÖ would present itself as an avenger, against which even Robin Hood would look bad, but then land hard as the “bedside rug of the ÖVP”. And you know the model of the Freedom Party, Kern rages: “Opposition bank, government bank, dock”.