Aaron Wölfling, Dornbirn’s youngest city councilor and co-founder of the Vorarlberg Fridays For Future movement, recently threw in the towel. The ÖVP should be to blame for this, which would have shown little interest in climate protection. The ÖVP around Mayor Andrea Kaufmann does not want to leave it that way.
Over the past year, it has become increasingly clear to me that the climate goals cannot be met with the ÖVP in the city government,” said Aaron Wölfling when he resigned from Dornbirn. For many months he tried to create awareness of the urgent need for action. But the representatives of the People’s Party had shown no interest. The 21-year-old climate activist, who is a co-founder of the Vorarlberg Fridays For Future movement, received help from the Green city party leader Juliane Alton. “Aaron Wölfling – like his predecessor Martin Hämmerle – felt how frustrating and tough it is to work for climate goals in the city of Dornbirn.” The Green City Councilor also criticized the information policy of the governing mayor Andrea Kaufmann (ÖVP). “We’re always following the information. As a young person, you can quickly become frustrated.” And she also denied Kaufmann & Co any voluntary commitment when it came to environmental protection. The city would have submitted a project to the Ministry of Climate Protection and also applied as a climate pioneer city. “But they only do it because there are high subsidies,” Alton speculated. Kaufmann & Co were outraged. Of course, the blacks didn’t want to let all this sit on them and vented their displeasure on social networks at the weekend. “For the sake of completeness, we would like to state: City Councilor Wölfling has not attended any meetings or events in the city since January. He explained this to the city council for personal reasons. Right from the start, we handled this information very carefully and considerately and wished him the best. We cannot let the fact that the VP has to be used as a fig leaf and that his resignation is justified with completely abstruse allegations against us,” said deputy mayor and club chairman Julian Fässler. It is finally time that the Greens for themselves and you staff would take responsibility. “First, City Councilor Hämmerle had to go because he constructed completely misplaced comparisons with fascism. Now his successor is resigning, who has not been performing his duties on the city council for months and is not available to anyone. “They aren’t so gentle with other councillors, they were almost affectionate with Aaron Wölfling,” he says with a laugh. The bottom line is that the consumption of men in the Greens is very high, but the number of applications in terms of climate protection is manageable. “The youngest is from our group,” he clarified.
