New struggle for citizenship – diepresse.com

The topic of citizenship is present again: Mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) spoke out in the starting Vienna election campaign at the beginning of the week that « the right to vote, especially for the legislative corporations, should still remain a citizenship law ». In Vienna, more than a third of the residents are not entitled to vote in the state and municipal council election on April 27.

The actual background of the debate provides the fact that asylum persons are currently able to make an application for obtaining citizenship after ten years – if they meet certain conditions. Now the FPÖ fears that all those who came to Austria at the highlight of the 2015 escape movement want to become citizens. The FPÖ calls a “system error per se” that asylum persons can eventually become a citizen. After all, asylum means only as much protection for protection.