Strache starts the Vienna election campaign: “I am the original” – Wien Aktuell

Heinz-Christian Strache and his HC team began the election campaign for the Vienna elections on Saturday morning as the first citywide list. In a speech that lasted more than an hour, the top candidate worked on the FPÖ, the federal crown measures, red-green in Vienna and the issue of migration. “I am the original,” he said once more.

The former head of the Freedom Party and former vice chancellor showed his supporters at the “Lotus Event Center” in Donaustadt that he could overcome the five percent hurdle to enter the state parliament and city council and thus make his political comeback. create. The FPÖ achieved nearly 31 percent in 2015; supporters at that time now expect much encouragement: “We will be there for these voters.”

Strache used the stage to vigorously distribute against his former friends from the party. This is because they “joined” the small “left” party “Wandel” when it came to preventing his candidacy in Vienna in the course of the main residence debate: “Who was your immediate partner? Herbert Kickl, Norbert Hofer, the Dominik Nepp “. In general, the blue electoral platform consists of only six words: “Contra Strache. Contra Strache. Contra Strache.” You are not going to this level.

Furthermore, no one in Vienna knows the FPÖ’s main candidate, Nepp, like the NEOS. ÖP Finance Minister and state party leader Gernot Blümel have already announced that they will remain in the federal government. And Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) is a “silent mayor” who lets the Greens have their way. What does Strache want for Vienna? For example, 15,000 new municipal apartments per year, 200 euros extra for all minimum pensioners per year and a free parking sticker.

Before the first on the list got to talk about the federal capital, however, he first devoted himself to the corona pandemic. “Down with the entire prohibition circus. We want to return to a normalcy that is possible based on the facts,” roared Strache. The federal government is targeting the spread of fear and anxiety, while losing basic rights.

“Saint Sebastian (brief, note) tries to give the Messiah. If he says he sees light at the end of the tunnel, it must be said that he led us into the tunnel in the first place,” Strache said, referring to the confinement. . And he assured: “We are not deniers of the crown. Of course there is the virus, as is the flu. But we must learn to live with the virus and protect risk groups, but not close our society.”

About Corona: Thanks to the great interest, no attempt was made to keep the meter away in the almost two and a half hours indoors. Even the masks were barely worn by any of the fans who were sometimes cheering loudly.

Strache himself said: “We don’t need a Corona traffic light. We need a migration traffic light that is red.” “We are not racists,” emphasized the head of the list, at the same time warning against a “radical Islam” and calling for “assimilation rather than failed integration.”

Regarding the Ibiza scandal, Strache once again affirmed that the “criminal structures” had tried to ruin it politically, socially and economically: “I am not the perpetrator, I am the victim.” This was an “attack on the Austrian government directed from abroad”, he interpreted, because: “I am not for sale nor am I corrupt in a drunken state, but I always follow the interests of the Austrian population.”

Until the polls on October 11, Strache announced an intense election campaign with an appearance at the Favoritner Viktor-Adler-Markt in mid-September, with community building festivals and a “Beisl tour.” Today could not miss a rhyme, of course: “What hurts the powerful and rulers most? A vote for HC”, wrote the top candidate and said, looking at his campaign companions, it was time to finally “real citizens” instead of professional politicians in the city hall. send, while at the same time he calculated that in the last 15 years as head of the FPÖ he had always defended the interests of the Austrians.