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The harshly criticized corona management around the Tyrolean ski resort of Ischgl ends in parliament: the Neos will summon Health Minister Rudi Anschober (Greens) on Wednesday for an urgent question in the House, announced Neos boss Beate Meinl -Reisinger, at a press conference on Tuesday. . He considers that the Health Councilor of Tyrol, Bernhard Tilg (ÖVP), is ready to retire.
“Multiorganversagen”
The recently submitted expert commission report indicates “incorrect assessments” by the Tyrolean authorities and miscommunication by the federal government, especially when the quarantine was imposed on Ischgl and St. Anton. In many things you are confirmed, in some it is “even worse” than expected, Meinl-Reisinger told the report. One could almost speak of a “multiple organ failure”.
“In all other countries, that would be the time to take a step back,” Meinl-Reisinger told Tyrolean health adviser Tilg. Governor Günther Platter’s (ÖVP) reaction is also “unacceptable”, but the federal government also has a “huge responsibility” and cannot “dodge”, says Meinl-Reisinger. Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) is a “panic chancellor” because he caused the panic without preparation on the spot and without any legal basis. The fact that more infections occurred during the tourists’ departure and that the virus had spread across Europe was the “worst case scenario”.
SPÖ is thinking about committee U
Meanwhile, the SPÖ did not rule out the possibility that a federal parliamentary inquiry commission would take up the matter. Federal party leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner told a news conference Tuesday that the report in question will be examined and the other parliamentary groups contacted.
The head of the site rejects the accusations
The mayor of Ischgl, Werner Kurz, has again rejected allegations that he had announced the regulation to stop skiing too late on the official notice board. Kurz announced in a broadcast that the community’s outreach had been coordinated with the authorities. After consultation with the district authority (BH), the ordinance was announced on March 14.
Video: Interview with the president of the Ischgl Commission, Ronald Rohrer
Two days from receipt to announcement
BH Landeck delivered the ordinance on March 12 at 2:33 pm, Kurz described the events at that time. The day before, on March 11 at around 6.30 pm, Governor Günther Platter (ÖVP) declared at a press conference that March 13 would be the last day of skiing in Ischgl. “In this context, after receiving the ordinance on the afternoon of March 12, we clarified with the Landeck district administration when the municipality had to publicize the ordinance,” Kurz said. This was not evident in the regulation itself. Unlike the other ordinances, there was no indication that it should be released immediately, the mayor explained.
The BH then announced that the ordinance will take effect from Saturday, March 14, and that March 13 will be the last day of skiing, Kurz said. This also corresponded to the governor’s statement. “For this reason I announced the ordinance on March 14 on the official notice board of the municipality of Ischgl,” said the local chief. The accusation that he did not comply with the Tyrolean municipal code is not true. Paragraph 60 of the Tyrolean municipal code applies to regulations issued by municipal bodies, but not to regulations issued by other authorities.
Presentation of the facts to the Public Ministry
The commission of experts to investigate the management of the Tyrolean crisis surrounding the Ischgl and Co. affair had tracked down the mayor’s misconduct by later announcing the ordinance. Briefly, the ordinance should have been posted on the official notice board on March 12, after Platter announced the cessation of skiing. Because he only did this on March 14, he violated the municipal code. Therefore, the commission submitted a statement of the facts to the prosecutor.
Chancellor: “All decisions agreed”
After the Ischgl Commission criticized the communication from Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP), this Tuesday he emphasized that all decisions between the health authorities and the federal government were always coordinated. And “of course, we as the federal government had a responsibility to communicate these decisions in a transparent way,” Kurz said at a news conference in Linz on Tuesday.
In the last six months, “in total an exceptional situation prevailed”, “for everyone, for the municipalities, the states, the federal government,” Kurz said. Quick decisions should have been made, which “worked well overall”. Decisions “were always coordinated between the health authorities and the government, but also with the federal states, and so it was with the decisions in Tyrol.”
