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The turquoise-green request for a deadline failed due to a red-blue-pink majority in the regional chamber. The law cannot take effect for eight weeks.
10:14 pm, December 3, 2020
the ÖVP and Green government factions finally failed Thursday night in the Federal Council because the Pension reform (which brings discounts in the case of the “hacker regulation”) so that it takes effect quickly. A deadline request submitted by the turquoise green federal councilors was approved by the narrow red-blue-pink majority rejected in state chamber. Then the reform can only in eight weeks It will enter in vigor.
The SPÖ and FPÖ had previously prevented pension reform, including the “piracy rule”, from being on the agenda of the Federal Council plenary on Thursday. The Social Democrats and the Freedom Party strictly reject an exit from the variant without discount. The delay in the commission by the SPÖ and the FPÖ was possible, as this commission meeting was still held in the old composition, in which the red-blue had a majority for the last time.
The motion of the government’s parliamentary groups to set a deadline on Thursday, with the help of which the pension reform would be put on the agenda of the next plenary session of the Federal Council, failed overnight because the opposition voted against it. Because in addition to the SPÖ and FPÖ, the sole Federal Councilor of NEOS, Karl-Arthur Arlamovsky, voted against. The National Council Pinkies had still voted in favor of pension reform. But now they want a proper treatment of pension reform in the committee, was the reason given by NEOS for the voting behavior of its Federal Council even before the vote of the deadline in the evening.
In the state chamber, the SPÖ and the FPÖ have only 30 of the 61 seats together after the new composition of the Federal Council on Thursday. Arlamovsky is, therefore, the “tip of the balance” and was instrumental in this motion in its first plenary session.
