Before the National Council: Opposition with blunt words – politics

The FPÖ wants to focus on the issue of asylum at the extraordinary meeting of the National Council that it requested on Wednesday. On Tuesday, the club’s president, Herbert Kickl, and the leader of the Vienna state party, Dominik Nepp, criticized a “wrong” policy in this sector, which generates billions in costs. Kickl mounted harsh attacks against Finance Minister Gernot Blümel (ÖVP), from whom he expects a “turnaround in the direction of ‘Austria first'” when drawing up the next budget.

According to Kickl, the expenses for the asylum area would amount to around two billion euros, this applies to the areas of basic care, family benefits, integration, social assistance, medical care and labor market policy, as he said in a joint press conference with Nepp. This is an “intolerable situation. When, if not now, is there a chance to turn it around?” He asked.

At the same time, Kickl stressed that “the ÖVP’s supposedly tough asylum policy” must be taken “seriously”. Because in March 2020, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) announced a quasi-asylum freeze when he declared that no one can submit an asylum application at the border if they cannot prove they are Corona-negative. At the end of August, there were around 8,000 asylum applications in Austria and more than 4,000 illegal immigrants had been picked up, “much, much more than last year,” Kickl said.

For this reason, the Freedom Party presented on Wednesday an urgent petition to Finance Minister Blümel with the title “End the billions spent on a false policy of asylum, immigration and integration in Austria and Europe – Austria needs every euro for the victims of the Black and Green Crown “. Disasters! “In view of the Corona case that was heard the day before, Kickl doubted that the Finance Minister would also appear on Wednesday in the vicinity of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP).” Yesterday, in the wake of this short-term corona emotion, He went into a kind of self-quarantine. He had a negative test and then self-quarantined, claiming he wanted to protect others. I think it was more of an attempt to escape. of an electoral campaign that does not go entirely according to their ideas, “said the FPÖ club’s top candidate, Blümel, for the Vienna elections.

The main candidate of the Vienna FPÖ and Deputy Mayor Nepp also declared that Vienna was “the main victim of this immigration madness”. 60 percent of the beneficiaries of the minimum income live in Vienna, more than half of them are foreigners. “Of course it is a certain attraction and a magnet for immigrants who come not only from outside Austria, but also from other federal states, because there you pay less.” Vienna failed to change that. Nepp found the blame for this not only with the red-green city government, but also with the “black-green alliance”.

Nepp also saw a “crime import”: 45,000 of around 90,000 suspects were foreigners, he said. And of the 13,000 asylum seekers under the Nepps bill, 6,000 would be suspects. He won’t let Blümel get away with his “campaign abuse” either: he is playing with the “tough Jonny” in the asylum area, but in 2015, as general secretary of the ÖVP, he was jointly responsible for the “culture of welcome “. In addition to demanding that the minimum income for non-Austrians be terminated, Nepp again called for the “constant deportation of criminal foreigners.” Only the FPÖ is a “red-white-red counterweight” against the “immigrant fetishists and welcome gossip” from the other parties, he said.

Like the SPÖ, the NEOS also criticize the extraordinary meeting of the National Council scheduled for tomorrow Wednesday, at the request of the FPÖ. “Parliament must not become an electoral arena,” the club’s vice president, Niki Scherak, said in a broadcast. In doing so, he not only shot at the FPÖ, whom he accused of “campaign noise”, but also at the main ÖVP candidate, Gernot Blümel, whom he reproached for neglecting his current job as finance minister.

“The government and parliamentarians should try to find solutions for the people and not open the political gaps in the country further,” Sherak said. Due to the constant staging and chaos surrounding the management of the crown, the government lost a lot of confidence in the population, said the vice president of the NEOS club. “A clear strategy and understandable regulations are also lacking. The finance minister in particular shines with his inability to provide corona assistance,” criticized Scherak, reiterating NEOS ‘demand for a commission of experts to establish the strategy.

The vice president of the NEOS club called for quick and bureaucratic help for companies. He accused Blümel of turning the fixed-cost subsidy into an electoral issue rather than seeking a quick agreement with the EU Commission. That is “intolerable”. Scherak demanded Blümel, whom he described as the “amateur finance minister”, to find a solution immediately so that all companies could get the support they needed to get through the winter.