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The NEOS see Postenschacher in the state holding company ÖBAG after the appearance of the chat logs. Both their boss, Thomas Schmid, and Finance Minister Gernot Blümel (ÖVP) are ready to resign, party leader Beate Meinl-Reisinger and pink representatives on the Ibiza investigation committee said on Monday at a conference. press. Stephanie Krisper announced a complaint against Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) for false statements.
“We saw nothing less than a moral image of a corrupt system of power and favoritism,” Meinl-Reisinger interpreted the content of the chat minutes posted over the weekend. These confirmed “everything we suspected”. Now it is also clear why the ÖVP, but also the Greens, wanted the ÖBAG party to “be” from the investigation committee. For the head of NEOS, it is intolerable that Schmid remains in office.
For the leader of the NEOS parliamentary group, Krisper, it is now clear that both Blümel, the owner’s representative, and Chancellor Kurz had lied in the investigation committee. This is a criminal offense, so the opposition party is now filing a statement of fact against the head of government for false statements. Krisper’s colleague on the committee, Helmut Brandstätter, also sees his survey findings confirmed. NEOS economic spokesman Sepp Schellhorn wonders, “Why does Mr. Schmid last so long? What do you know?”
The ÖBAG supervisory board is not affected by the suspicions against Schmid. As a company, he was not a party to or a suspect in the ongoing investigation, he said in a broadcast, continuing: “Due to the fact that the ÖBAG board of directors is listed as a suspect, the ÖBAG supervisory board continually assesses the progress of the investigation with the participation of outside lawyers. There are no new suspicions and criminal investigations against Thomas Schmid. “
The Business and Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (WKStA) also admitted in an official note that there was no connection between Schmid’s appointment at ÖBAG and the appointments at CASAG, according to the statement. “Therefore, there is currently no need for action of any kind by the ÖBAG Supervisory Board.” Of course, the progress of the investigation “will continue to be closely monitored and legally evaluated.”
Blümel must finally resign as finance minister and chairman of the Vienna ÖVP party, the head of the Vienna FPÖ, Dominik Nepp, also demanded in a broadcast. “These turquoise swamps now need to be drained as quickly as possible.” SPÖ Women’s President Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek again criticized sexism in the chat logs. “The contempt of women in the ÖVP’s closest environment is exposed here,” she said in a broadcast.
Other chat logs that circulated after the allegations against the ÖVP emerged are also intended to illustrate Schmid’s contacts with the SPÖ, specifically with ÖGB boss Wolfgang Katzian. However, the main problem here was the dispatch of workers’ representatives to the supervisory board. Katzian was the SPÖ’s chief negotiator for the reform of the state holding company; the sending of works councils to the supervisory council was a condition of the SPÖ for the approval of the reform in the National Council.
At the time, however, Katzian apparently had no objection to Schmid’s promotion to head of ÖBAG: “Now the next step: your order,” he wrote to the Finance Ministry negotiator after the decision. When asked about the Katzian news, Meinl-Reisinger said that if Schmid were involved in Schmid’s appointment, then this would be “equally reprehensible.”
