Stocker stands in the National Council of a question and answer session – Diepresse.com

On Second and last day of plenary week If the National Council decides on the ORF committee reform. It stipulates that the federal government will only send six members to the 35-member ORF foundation council in the future. Also on Thursday The program includes a change to the National Fundwhose chair is currently still National Council President Walter Rosenkranz (FPÖ). The meeting will start with a question time, guest is Federal Chancellor Christian Stocker (ÖVP).

The ORF committee reform had become necessary because the Constitutional Court (VfGH) found in 2023 that the government has too much weight when ordering the ORF bodies. In the future, the Federal Government will only send six instead of nine members to the ORF Foundation Council, which will in future send half of the Federal Government to send nine instead of six members. In addition, the ORF contribution will be frozen by the end of 2029.

Need for National Fund Chair

Another highlight of the session is the decision of a novella for the National Fund for Victims of National Socialism. The National Council President can be represented at the head of the National Fund, but can also be voted out. Rosenkranz is expected to lose the chair of the fund, the reform has been initiated because the Israelite cultural community has heavily criticized the fraternal.

The National Council will also deal with a report on the national strategy against anti-Semitism, with two equal treatment reports and with the continuation of a scholarship program for students, teachers and administrative staff at Central, East and Southeast European universities (CEEPUS IV). The session ends with the first reading of an FPÖ application, which aims at a change in the procedural order in investigation committees. (APA)