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The leader of the SPÖ parliamentary group, Jan Krainer, missed messages from seven of the 17 chat groups in which Kurz and Strache were part of Vienna. “We hope it becomes clear why we have not received any messages from these seven groups,” Krainer said. Krainer also wants the “side letter” on the ORF reform mentioned in a U-Committee chat: “We are interested in the content.” Now, however, Kurz “has not sent a single note”, criticized Krainer: “We have to fight for what we want through the Constitutional Court.”
The leader of the FPÖ parliamentary group, Christian Hafenecker, also questioned the integrity of the presented chat history: “I don’t think we all understood it. Anyone who knows the intensity with which Strache sent text messages, knows that not all can be. “. Regarding the content, the SMS sent to the U-Committee “did not provide much illuminating information.”
“That doesn’t sound as boring as the ÖVP claims”
The “Supplementary Letter” mentioned in the SMS is also the most interesting for the leader of the NEOS parliamentary group, Stephanie Krisper. What was it about this side letter that made Kurz so nervous? He asked Krisper: “That doesn’t sound as unexciting as the ÖVP claims.” Once again, the leader of the pink parliamentary group criticized the way the chat story was released. This was a “transparent but annoying maneuver by the ÖVP”. The very moment they hit the U-Committee, they went to the tabloid media, including the ÖVP spin.
The leader of the ÖVP parliamentary group, Wolfgang Gerstl, saw a “relationship box” and “abuse” of the Türkis-Blau actors in the chat processes. Other than that, it was about internal decisions or debates “long before the law was passed.” All of this has nothing to do with the subject of the investigation, according to Gerstl. He also criticized the fact that the principle of “in dubio pro reo” had been abandoned. Instead, the principle “in dubio pro publico” is applied, in case of doubt everything is made public. This has reached a new dimension. “We should think about protecting privacy,” Gerstl said.
