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The FPÖ chief avoided questions about his party’s relationship to identities and responded to criticism from the ORF.
On Monday, FPÖ boss Norbert Hofer had no desire to answer questions about his party’s relationship to the identities in ORF- “ZiB2”. After his distraction in the direction of political Islam did not help, he went on to counterattack the ORF. That’s “not a very smart question,” he says when it comes to the question of whether the 2018 board decision on a role ban for identities active in the FPÖ still applies.
Even persistent questions from ZiB moderator Martin Thür did not help, Hofer did not answer questions about identities, with the exception of the comment that FPÖ Secretary General Michael Schnedlitz made a statement in November that “this distancing has definitely finished. ” It only affected one Salzburg official.
Seated circle with identities
Instead of responding to what he thinks about the planned ban on identity symbols, he accused the ORF of “doing the best publicity for this group” and said it was “good that I disenrolled from the SIG” where the ” Forcibly funded ORF knows nothing better than wanting to talk about a mini-group, “even though an Islamist terrorist killed people in Vienna (early November).
“That really gets on my nerves,” Hofer said, recommending to Thür “make a sitting circle with identities.” The “mini-mini-group” of the Identitarians was “really irrelevant” to him, Hofer, he didn’t want to “have to deal with it permanently”.
Vaccination too late for the government
Hofer was already a bit impatient when it came to the Corona issue, when FPÖ health spokesperson Dagmar Belakowitsch asked him repeatedly about the request made a few hours before the National Vaccination Committee, which he considered too close to the government, was replaced. . This question “is not particularly important” to him and that will not be the key to the solution, Hofer avoided.
In general, he was quite cautious with Corona, where the FPÖ often doubts and criticizes the measures. He hoped that “vaccination saves lives”, for high-risk patients it would be “at least a great benefit.” The FPÖ does not want “to convince anyone that they will or will not vaccinate,” Hofer stressed, and “now believes that science is on the way.” There should be an open discussion about open questions, such as whether one can infect others despite being vaccinated. Because for him personally it is important that “I cannot infect anyone”.
It rejects mandatory vaccinations, including indirect ones (for example, no entry to events), Hofer confirmed. And he voiced criticism that members of the government will only be vaccinated in April or May, after health professions and high-risk patients. That was “strange”, he thought, the government was relevant to a country, and the time would be “quite late if you are convinced of the right path.”
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