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Burgenland governor and SPÖ leader Hans Peter Doskozil swims against the party line again. It would not take in refugee children from the burning Greek camp of Moria. “I think little about individual measures to calm social conscience and be able to see again how people drown in the Mediterranean every day,” Doskozil said in the daily “Österreich” (Sunday).
The SPÖ responded to Doskozil’s position with silence, the stronger the response from the Chancellor’s ÖVP party. Interior Minister Karl Nehammer sees him challenged to lead his party along this line, as indicated in a statement to the APA on Sunday. Above all, the Viennese ÖVP in campaign agreed.
“I’m glad it looks realistic.”
“The Moria tragedy is a catastrophe for anyone who has seen the images. If you see children sleeping in the street, it breaks your heart,” Nehammer said, “but you must not draw the wrong conclusions.” For this reason, the Turquoise Interior Minister was “happy that Governor Doskozil has a realistic vision of the reception of migrants.”
It would be good for Nehammer if Doskozil also convinced his party leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner, and especially the mayor of Vienna, Michael Ludwig, on the question of accepting refugees from Moria. “A clear commitment against the continued admission of migrants would also be necessary among the Social Democrats,” the minister suggested to the opposition party to change course.
Advice on the direction of the SPÖ-led federal capital does not come from Nehammer alone. City politicians also struck the same note in a flurry of broadcasts, including club president Elisabeth Olischar, councilor Markus Wölbitsch, security spokesperson Karl Mahrer and integration spokesperson Caroline Hungerländer. Everyone saw the Doskozil line as a model for the Viennese SPÖ.
