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The Vienna ÖVP actually only officially started the election campaign on Thursday; Thematically, it has been shaping the political debate for several days.
In terms of integration, ÖVP’s top candidate Gernot Blümel recently took a tougher tone. Among other things, it requires that applicants for a communal apartment in the future be able to demonstrate sufficient knowledge of German. Blümel criticizes that Mayor Michael Ludwig and the red-green municipal government are currently preventing it.
Other demands: compulsory German courses for parents of children with insufficient language skills and an extension of the ban on the headscarf.
“More freedom”
Now Gernot Blümel, completely in the role of finance minister, criticizes the “Viennese bureaucracy”: it needs “more economic freedom and less control”, says the economics chapter of the ÖVP electoral program, which KURIER has exclusively. “Anyone who has good ideas in Vienna should be able to implement them quickly and without unnecessary obstacles.”
While the metropolises of other countries are engines of growth and employment, the red-green Vienna lags behind the rest of Austria.
The Vienna ÖVP wants to change this, among other things, by attacking an issue that has been contentious for years: Sunday’s opening. “Our city,” says the turquoise electoral manifesto, “was the destination of many weekend tourists until the Crown crisis, but shops are still closed on Sundays.” What is needed are tourist areas for guests to “spend money in the city.” . “
