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Both Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) and Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler (Greens) assure that the turquoise green will remain despite the deportation dispute. The tone in the coalition remained quite harsh over the weekend. For example, Kogler wanted “more heart and brain” from the interior minister. “The fewer factual arguments you have, the more aggressive the language becomes,” replied ÖVP club director August Wöginger in the “Kleine Zeitung” (Sunday edition).
The reason for the problem is the deportation of school-age girls and their families to Georgia and Armenia. The Greens reacted with indignation, despite the pressure from the rank and file and within their own ranks, the National Council this week did not approve the content of the SPÖ and NEOS really green proposals so as not to endanger the coalition. Instead, Kogler announced a child welfare commission that will address the importance of children’s rights in decisions about asylum and residency rights.
But the matter is not over yet: Kogler gave several interviews over the weekend (“Kleine Zeitung”, “Standard”, “Salzburger Nachrichten”) in which he was confident that the coalition would hold the entire legislative period, but also continued to speak of an “open conflict” and followed his criticism of the Interior Minister, Karl Nehammer (ÖVP). So he accused Nehammer of false claims and detours of “difficulties” in the interior department. “I would expect more heart and brain, especially from the interior minister,” the vice chancellor said.
The ÖVP is now reacting somewhat irritated: “The insults against the Minister of the Interior and the ÖVP do not change anything in the government program or the rule of law,” Wöginger told the Green Vice Chancellor. “You can personally reject the judgments of the highest courts, but in a constitutional state you must always accept them.”
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) had previously argued in the same way in the “Welt am Sonntag”: “As a citizen and politician, you have the right to personally perceive a judicial decision as incorrect. But it is important that you respect it,” asked the foreign minister. . But Kurz also tried to reassure himself: “I am very optimistic that the ÖVP and the Greens will continue to work well together in government until the fall of 2024.”
Chancellery Minister Karoline Edtstadler (ÖVP), responsible for the constitution, called for “an objectification of the debate” on Saturday lunchtime in the series Ö1 “Im Journal zu Gast”. They were impressed by the images of the deportations. But the parents and legal counsel could not be left out of service, there had been “a clear abuse of the right to asylum” in the specific case, Edtstadler said. “There was no room for maneuver here,” he defended his party colleague Nehammer.
In the case of Tina, aged twelve, which is discussed particularly in public, her lawyer Wilfried Embacher is investigating, according to “Kleiner Zeitung” and “profil”, to bring the girl back to Austria applying for a student visa. . A family, where the student could find accommodation, would be ready, Embacher said.
Around 400 young people demonstrated on Saturday afternoon at the Ring in central Vienna against such deportations of children and young people. “Dear government, deportations of children are NEVER okay!”, You could read on the banners.
