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„Jetzt gehe ich hinaus – und jetzt wählts mich ab!“ Mit diesen Worten verließ Uschi Schwarzl nach ihrer „Abschiedsrede“ als Vizebürgermeisterin den Sitzungssaal in der Messe. Wer ihr nachfolgt, ist völlig offen.
© Thomas Böhm
Innsbruck – This is what you call the kick-out seat – just 14 months after Christine Oppitz-Plörer (for Innsbruck, FI) was voted out of office as Deputy Mayor, Uschi Schwarzl (Greens) now gets rid of this post: GR Gerald Depaoli’s motion to vote against (Innsbruck, GI only) was adopted on Thursday evening after three and a half hours of discussion with 27:12 votes. Coalition partners FI, ÖVP and SPÖ, such as FPÖ and List Fritz, voted in favor, but alongside the Greens, only NEOS and ALI were in favor.
Earlier, a last meeting of the internal coalition had failed during a hiatus, and consequently the mood at the meeting was irritated. BM Georg Willi (Greens) referred to the trigger for the cause – the regulation of a temporary meeting area: “There is no illegal regulation by Uschi Schwarzl because the regulation was issued by the mayor,” he said. Therefore, you can file a motion to vote against it. With the question of whether the regulation was covered by the so-called delegation regulation, there are two different legal opinions. So the opposition and the coalition partners have changed their strategy, from a legal rebuke to Schwarzl’s transport policy, which nevertheless corresponds exactly to the coalition agreement. GR Julia Seidl (NEOS) also stated that the deletion had no legal basis.
Criticism of Schwarzl was actually more political than legal, especially the accusation of lack of information and participation of Schwarzl, exemplified by the meeting zone, was frequent. This was not only true for FPÖ club president Markus Lassenberger or aspiring Depaoli (“bad and non-transparent transport policy”), but also for coalition partners: “Nobody wants city politics to be under this public light “, says Lucas, president of the FI club. Crackl. But it’s about the “big political vision”: a “more careful handling” of legal conditions like regulations is needed. And: “If you want to achieve something together, you have to work together. That only works if you talk. “
From the point of view of GR Benjamin Plach (SPÖ) “we could have saved ourselves all the hassle” if the regulation of the meeting area had been properly discussed and prepared in advance. In general, questions in this political sphere are not resolved through the delegation regulations, “but belong to the commission and the municipal council.” ÖVP club president Christoph Appler announced that he would submit a request to review the delegation regulations with FI and SPÖ. All the partners accused the Greens of lack of understanding and refusal to speak.
Schwarzl watched the debate calmly, almost motionless, even in the far corner of the room, before being the last to speak: she was not “hurt” or “sad” but “amazed.” The legal criticism and that of its procedure were raised: rather, I had the impression that part of the coalition did not want to support the “courageous” transport policy “that we defined in the coalition agreement”. And: communication is a “two-way thing”, especially in the transportation committee she misses the partners.
What happens now? From a purely formal point of view, this is clear: under city law, Schwarzl departments now fall under the responsibility of the mayor. The municipal council of January decides who will succeed her in the position of vice mayor; each party represented in the city senate has the right to make proposals. The Greens immediately declared that they wanted to nominate Schwarzl again for the department of environment, energy, mobility and culture.
If and how cooperation in the coalition of four can continue after this heated meeting, of course everyone was undecided on Thursday. (Maryland)
