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The Burgenland state parliament’s commission of inquiry into the commercial bank scandal began Wednesday morning. Nine members of the state parliament, five from the SPÖ, two from the ÖVP and one from the FPÖ and the Greens each, have a maximum of six months to uncover possible political threads surrounding the alleged falsification of financial statements at the Commerzialbank.
It started at 10.06 on the third floor of the Eisenstadt cultural center, where the committee of the state parliament was relocated due to the crown. Initially, the committee elected trial judges, lawyers, and their deputies, all unanimously. The procedural judge is Walter Pilgermair, retired President of the Higher Regional Court of Innsbruck, and lawyer Michael Kasper. His alternates are Beate Matschnig (retired judges of the Vienna Regional Criminal Court) and lawyer Mathias Burger. The KURIER informed in advance about the four personal data.
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Then it was in the U-Committee where the opposition of the ÖVP, FPÖ and Greens demanded, but the harmony was over again. After the objections of the leader of the ÖVP parliamentary group Markus Ulram and his green colleague Regina Petrik to the acquisition of archives, the exclusion of alternate members from the conference room and the seating arrangement in the room, the chair of the committee, Verena Dunst, she was angry. Rather than answer in terms of content, the former teacher instructed the parliamentarians and referred all questions to the next presidential meeting, in which all political groups are represented.
She “will not allow the U-Committee to degenerate into a political spectacle.” It ended at 10:33 am
Subsequently, the ÖVP announced the examination of the legal actions against Dunst, whom they accused of breaking the law and arbitrariness. The leader of the SPÖ parliamentary group, Roland Fürst, however, urged greater objectivity and saw “nervous opposition”.
Now the committee members must wait for the decision of the administrative tribunal until the first working session of the committee can take place. The court must rule on a challenge from the opposition, which accused Dunst of having eliminated several questions from the request to the U-Committee. The dish has until mid-October at the latest.
It has removed nothing, Dunst said at first, but attorneys for the state parliament only made “legal clarifications.” In the next sentence he admitted that he had deleted at least one passage about the possible damage to the image of Burgenland province caused by the banking scandal, because a U-Committee never “deals with visions of the future.”
