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The opposition criticized Finance Minister Gernot Blümel’s (ÖVP) budget speech on Wednesday. The deputy head of the SPÖ, Jörg Leichtfried, sees a “budget of broken promises”, the president of Neos, Beate Meinl-Reisinger, a “discouraged budget”. And FPÖ coach Herbert Kickl criticizes the fact that the billions of expenses mentioned by Blümel do not reach those affected: “What is happening here is a mess of numbers and a mess of real support.”
For Leichtfried, the 2021 budget shows the turquoise green government’s lack of wishes and prospects. “There are not enough funds in the fight against unemployment, which Chancellor Kurz wanted to give a ‘top priority’, nor the promised tax cut and neither the billions in investments that have been announced, for example in climate protection,” Leichtfried said in a broadcast. It demands, among other things, 1,700 euros of tax-free income and 1 billion of climate protection.
FPÖ: “Money is only distributed virtually”
FPÖ club boss Kickl criticizes the government’s “sleight of hand” in tackling the crisis. The government has distributed the same money over and over again in countless press conferences. “But unfortunately it is only distributed virtually, because de facto almost nothing has come up with all those who were taken by the black-green crown measurements,” Kickl said. The government with its excessive crown measures and “stingy compensation bureaucracy” is to blame for hundreds of thousands of unemployed.
“The federal government continues the course of the mere administration of yesterday; no investments are made in the future,” Neos president Meinl-Reisinger said, criticizing the government’s “dead-end budget.” She calls for more investment in climate-friendly infrastructure and education: “Very little is happening here.” (apa)
