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Kickl asks for an extension of the deadline and a health committee with an expert hearing.
Vienna The head of the FPÖ club, Herbert Kickl, is coming out of the confinement furious because of the law introduced by the government on “free tests”. The approach of the ÖVP and the Greens was “a bottomless cheek and an attack on basic democratic principles,” Kickl said in a broadcast on New Year’s Day. He called on Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen to “press the stop button and finally put an end to the continuing autocratic course of the ÖVP Chancellor”.
Yesterday, on the last day of 2020, the government introduced the law on the “freest possible” closure, the amendment to the Epidemic Law and the COVID-19 Measures Law is under review for January 3. The amendment allows people with a negative test and all those who have had crown disease in the past three months to be exempt from the exit restrictions.
Kickl: “Ambush” design
Kickl on Thursday criticized the ÖVP and the Greens “from an ambush” for their assessment a few hours before the end of the year. “Here the desperate-political power of democracy and parliament (Chancellor Sebastián, note) Kurz and (Health Minister Rudolf, note) Anschober have done a great job again,” said the opposition representative once again, without skimp on friendly words. With the short term until Sunday, the possibility of an in-depth discussion of the content is excluded from the beginning. Kickl called for an extension of the review period until January 15 and a health committee in the National Council with a mandatory expert hearing, in which constitutional and medical experts are invited and heard.
In terms of content, the draft is “the most massive usurpation of Austrian fundamental rights and freedoms to date,” Kickl emphasized. “It contradicts the principle of equality and the rule of law and violates the fundamental principles of the Austrian constitutional state,” he said. The “mandatory test” is “neither proportionate nor appropriate”. It even goes so far that private contacts can also depend on participation in the test. “Those who do not want to be tested can even be denied entry to public places. This can even result in permanent detention,” Kickl warned. Some parts of the measures are also not expressly limited in time and would therefore be permanent.
