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“If the grievances and failure of the turquoise green government can no longer be pointed out, we can no longer be part of this executive branch,” explains the FLÖ.
The relationship between the left-wing coalition parliamentary groups in the federal representation of the Austrian Students’ Union (ÖH) had been broken for months, now the student council (FLÖ) lists have ended their cooperation with the Greens and Alternative Students ( GRAS) and the Socialist Students Association (VSStÖ). The reason given by the FLÖ on Wednesday was “destructive battles between factions”.
According to one broadcast, these have seriously harmed student work in recent months. In a turbulent federal representation meeting in late June, the coalition partners voted against each other several times, and the agreed-upon change of presidency failed. According to the FLÖ, the subsequent refusal to speak led to “unbearable executive paralysis”. “If he is no longer allowed to point out the complaints and failure of the turquoise green government, we, as FLÖ, can no longer be part of this executive,” former FLÖ representative in the ÖH presidency, Desmond Grossmann, indirectly criticizes the former partner of the CÉSPED coalition. As an opposition faction, the FLÖ wants to fight alongside university representatives to ensure that student interests “are not buried under the ruins of party politics.”
At the moment, the FLÖ’s withdrawal from the coalition has no major impact on the ÖH’s ability to act. As before, there are still two presidents and the units are largely occupied. However, the remaining coalition of GRAS and VSStÖ has two votes under to make decisions in the federal representation and would have to secure the support of other parliamentary groups.
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The next BV meeting will take place on September 18. A spokesperson left open on Wednesday whether the FLÖ will request that the president be removed from office. A two-thirds majority would be required under the Higher Education Act if an application is submitted directly at the meeting. If a request for de-election by re-election arrives early before the invitation period and therefore appears on the BV meeting agenda, a simple majority is sufficient.
The former tripartite coalition has 31 seats in the 55-member federal representation, the student parliament for all Austria. 28 votes are required for a majority.
GRAS and VSStÖ (both 13) have only 26 after the departure of the FLÖ. The community of action related to the ÖVP (AG) has 15 mandates, the JUNOS six, the FLÖ five, two competing communist student associations (KSV-KJÖ and KSV LiLi) and the Freedom Ring Students (RFS) one each.
The next ÖH elections will take place in spring 2021. Until then, GRAS and VSStÖ could together try to find alternate majorities in federal representation. They are only two votes short for this. Flying coalition changes would be possible, but quite unlikely: both GRAS and VSStÖ would each have 28 votes along with the AG. A coalition of AG, JUNOS and FLÖ would not have a majority.
(THAN)
