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SPÖ Councilor Mireille Ngosso advocates for a quota of immigrants in management positions.
As the “first black woman”, Mireille Ngosso, deputy district director for the city center, moved to Vienna City Hall a few days ago. Before the Vienna elections, the SPÖ politician had a strong social media presence and the slogan “It’s time for one of us!” requested preferential votes.
He experienced a lot of racism
The doctor wants to promote health and integration issues in the town hall. The politician already experienced racism as a teenager. In an interview with “Wien heute”, the 40-year-old spoke about dropping out of school after a teacher told her, “You will never become anything.”
I was 16 then. “I was lucky and had family and friends who supported me. Other people do not have that,” said the SPÖ councilor.
That is why he asks for a quota of migrants for management positions. The Greens made headlines with a similar demand for city jobs in the Vienna election campaign. “Blacks don’t have the same opportunities as whites. I think otherwise it will be very difficult for migrants without a network.”
His role model is Germany, where there are quotas for “people with a migratory background to access higher floors.” A third of all Viennese have a migration background, Ngosso said.
Ran away when he was three
He came to Austria when he was three years old. Her parents had fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo with her. Today Ngosso works as a doctor at the Hietzing hospital. “The intensive care units are almost full,” said the 40-year-old. He obtained his medical degree in the second educational path.
As a surgeon, she uses the kindergarten care facilities for her children due to professional circumstances. “I have to go to work, my husband has to go to work, he is also a doctor. We would have no way to practice our profession.”
