Vienna elections: ÖVP and FPÖ want special state days on integration and social issues – Vienna elections

The Vienna election campaign also brings two special sessions of the state parliament. There are no dates for the debates yet.

“Integration at the expense of the Viennese population. Vienna needs a law on integration measures” is the title of the FPÖ’s request. In no way is the city government alone responsible. “On the one hand, the FPÖ will address the completely failed mass immigration policy of the SPÖ, but in particular it will also point to the failure of the ÖVP in integration policy and the associated fatal effects in Vienna,” party leader Dominik Nepp told the APA.

Since the ÖVP and the Greens have been in the federal government, there have been fewer deportations. The refusal to integrate is increasingly “massive”. At the same time, Vienna “indiscriminately pours millions” into so-called integration associations, “which many times do not even dedicate themselves to integration, or where financial resources are wasted in personnel costs without specifying specific guidelines and binding rules.”

The FPÖ complains that there is little control or overview of what integration steps the associations, institutions or other departments have taken, how and with what success. Therefore, a Vienna Integration Measures Act is required, which establishes concrete, uniform and binding requirements in the field of integration, makes it transparent to the public and offers prospects for the future in this field.

The ÖVP has chosen minimum income as a focus for the special state parliament it requested. Here a reform is more than overdue, said councilor Markus Wölbitsch and club president Elisabeth Olischar in a broadcast: “Red-Green continues to block the implementation of the Basic Law of Social Assistance. This blocking policy is a violation of the constitution “.

According to the ÖVP, current minimum security figures show that Vienna is the “social magnet of Austria”. Although only 20 percent of Austria’s residents would live here, two-thirds of all minimum income recipients were in Vienna. More than 60 percent of all asylum-seekers who receive minimum income in Austria would do so in the federal capital. “The influx into the social system must be stopped,” demands the ÖVP.