One last, hard exchange of blows before the Vienna election-Diepresse.com
On Thursday evening, the top candidates of all Viennese parties met one last time. It became partly rough, partly very cozy.
Vienna. It was the last big exchange of blows before the Vienna election on Sunday. Between the mayor Michael Ludwig and Vienna’s FPÖ boss Dominik Nepp the elephant round in the ORF To be very rough on Thursday evening – while Bettina Emmerling (Neos), Karl Mahrer (ÖVP) and Judith Pühringer (Greens) embarrassingly careful not to criticize the mayor. After all, all three apply for the job to Michael Ludwig’s side after the Vienna election-the goal is a coalition with the SPÖ, was emphasized by Mahrer, Emmerling and Pühringer.
Opposition and Neos on a cuddly course
The intensive advertising of Ludwig’s favor led to Emmerling and Pühringer in particular together several times, while no longer heard of the harsh criticism of Mahrers, which the ÖVP boss had said at the SPÖ in the past few weeks.
It became uncomfortable for Ludwig and Mahrer when they had to explain the enormous deficit. One (Ludwig) for Vienna, the other (Mahrer) for the huge budget hole that the then ÖVP finance minister (and current EU commissioner) left Magnus Brunner. Ludwig argued with the series of crises from Corona pandemic to the gas crisis to the massively increased inflation, here Vienna had to cushion the effects for the population, while the then Turquoise-Green Federal Government did not intervene in inflation with a rental price lid and energy prices.
« Pension robbery », re -actuation and Brussels
Pühringer’s counterattack: Vienna could have intervened via the city’s own Vienna energy in energy prices. Nepp then accused Ludwig « pension robbery » because the turquoise-red-pink triple coalition at the federal level increased contributions to health insurance for pensioners. Ludwig said that the FPÖ reported this in the negotiations on the (later failed) turquoise-blue negotiations in the federal government to Brussels, Nepp denied one word, the other showed the other, it became heated, especially when it was an FPÖ candidate in Vienna-Donaustadt that had been convicted in December (he was now excluded from the FPÖ).
Otherwise, the discussion brought a repetition of well -known points of view. The FPÖ wants to continue the minimum security for citizens who promote NEOS education in Vienna, the Greens more climate protection and the SPÖ their « Wiener Weg ».
