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The people are smarter than the respective politicians. The Health Minister, Rudolf Anschober, wanted to express it with some satisfaction on Monday, although he did not say so. It is understandable that politicians in the affected regions are not enthusiastic about the change of the traffic light from crown to yellow. It is even more remarkable that the population is already implementing the expansion of oral and nasal protection very well, said the politician Verde in a transmission. Anchober and the federal government had had to hear harsh criticism from Upper Austria, especially the capital Linz, which was marked in yellow, and Vienna since Friday. Anschober intended his reference to the good start of the school in Vienna to be a blow to angry regional politicians.
For Vienna, Linz, Graz and the Kufstein district, the crown traffic light has been yellow since it was first activated last Friday until Friday this week, indicating medium risk. There were 290 new corona infections in Austria on Monday, 75 of them in Vienna and 56 in Upper Austria.
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In Vienna, where elections will take place on October 11, the fallout from the Crown will naturally overshadow the election campaign. Mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) reacted moderately to the fact that the city of almost two million people is forced to start school with a mask for students and teachers until class because of the yellow color of the traffic light in Corona. The turquoise green anti-federal government agitator was once again Health Councilor Peter Hacker, who dismissed the stoplight solution as “incomprehensible.” But Vienna will implement the requirements.
In Upper Austria, the state parliament, councilors and mayors will not be elected for one year. But the ÖVP with Governor Thomas Stelzer at the state level and above all Linz Mayor Klaus Luger (SPÖ) worked hard. They used the fact that the Corona traffic light was earmarked for money for the 200,000-strong city of Linz to protest and resist. A decision by federal politicians offers the opportunity to oppose it in front of the voters. For Stelzer like Luger, this created a platform for early election campaigns and profiling a year before the election.
Both High Austrians can use it. The ÖVP Stelzers, who will win in their first election as the top ÖVP candidate in autumn 2021, got very close to the FPÖ with the power-conscious President Manfred Haimbuchner in the 2015 state elections. As city boss, Luger had to run for mayor of Linz in 2015.
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Since then, there have been embarrassing disclosures about files that were left behind for Luger. More recently, in May of this year, there was strong criticism for a mountain of debt that had soared to 1.5 billion euros and recurring deficits that were only partially masked by the sale of assets to municipally owned companies.
Luger’s threat of not implementing stricter measures because the number of corona infections is declining is in sharp contrast to Graz, which is also classified as yellow. The mayor of Austria’s second-largest city, Siegfried Nagl of the ÖVP, reacted rather calmly and announced that action would be taken before Friday to ensure that the traffic light in the crown turns green.
At the federal level, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Anschober are trying to calm things down. The Health Minister promised readjustments of traffic lights and better regional regulation. They didn’t want to compromise on the details just yet, options were being explored. Green politician ÖVP and SPÖ no longer want to hand out electoral ammunition for free.
