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Until now, ÖVP has repeatedly questioned the authenticity of documents published by the “Falter”. They were the basis for reporting on the costs of the party’s electoral campaign.
As Falter’s editor Josef Redl reported via Twitter, ÖVP had confirmed in a letter “that the documents we use are genuine, and not ‘falsified’ or ‘manipulated’ as has been said multiple times.” The ÖVP declined to comment on this because it was an ongoing procedure.
Nehammer as a witness
The disputing parties first met in court on the preparatory statutes in February. There was no comparison at that time. It was agreed, among other things, to provide evidence. The authenticity of the documents sent to court by the “Falter” apparently has not been questioned by ÖVP.
The first hearing was scheduled for June 22 at the Vienna Commercial Court, in case there is no comparison by then. In addition to former federal director and now secretary general Axel Melchior, former secretary general and current interior minister Karl Nehammer and “Falter” editor Redl will also be heard as witnesses.
ÖVP wants revocation
The ÖVP filed the lawsuit against the weekly last September after the “Falter” had previously published internal documents on the costs of the electoral campaign and the party’s finances for the Turquoises and had concluded that the ÖVP in the electoral campaigns 2017 and 2019 with accounting tricks and sometimes duplicates Accounting has obscured the excess of the legally allowed limit of the electoral campaign. The “moth” also assumed that the ÖVP calculated in early 2017 and 2019 that the campaign costs would be exceeded.
The ÖVP in turn suspects that the documents available for the “moth” stem from a cyber attack on the party headquarters. The ÖVP spoke of incorrect or manipulative reports and complained. Consequently, the “moth” should no longer claim that the ÖVP deliberately plans to exceed the campaign cost cap of € 7 million in 2019, that the ÖVP deliberately misleads the public about its campaign expenses and that the ÖVP wants to hide the excess of the campaign cost limit to the Court of Accounts. The ÖVP requires the revocation of these claims, the corresponding publication and reimbursement of costs.
(APA)
