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Sobotka no longer wants to bear the accusations.
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The president of the Ibiza Investigation Commission, president of the National Council, Wolfgang Sobotka, who has been criticized for discussing the cooperations of clubs in his environment, defends himself against the accusations.
Try to read wrong things in it. “I have become a kind of toy in politics,” he said of “Krone.” “I am not biased and I don’t have to put up with these accusations. No one. And I definitely will not withdraw.”
Committee U: Sobotka defends himself against the accusations
“Everything was correct. I also said that in the commission and for the investigated period, there were joint announcements and events,” he says of the “Kronen” in relation to the complaints about the Alois Mock Institute, which Sobotka directs. Newspaper “(Sunday edition). The latest allegations, which concern the chamber orchestra in its home country, Waidhofen / Ybbs, are particularly painful (sponsored by the Novomatic playgroup).” I am the conductor there, nothing more. The president has requested sponsorship from many companies. It doesn’t work without support. “
More recently, the opposition factions in the U-Committee not only demanded that Sobotka resign from the presidency, but the Greens also urged the president to suspend the presidency until the allegations are resolved. And on Friday night, Green Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler advised him “in the time of picture 2” not to occupy the chair anymore “until these possible or actual contradictions have been resolved.” A similar statement was made on Sunday, according to “Austria”, in the office of the president of the Green Club, Sigrid Maurer: Sobotka had to clarify how the disagreements arose, until then the Second President of the National Council, Doris Bures (SPÖ), should head the presidency.
Melchior: the committee becomes a “cheap electoral campaign program”
ÖVP Secretary General Axel Melchior supported Sobotka on Sunday: “The closer the next Vienna elections get, the more the opposition parties and the Greens attack Committee U chairman Wolfgang Sobotka and abuse this important democratic instrument to distinguish oneself in the current electoral campaign, ”he said in a broadcast.
It is “extremely regrettable” that the committee is degenerating into a “cheap campaign program” by being “thrown in with wild charges and endless calls to withdraw.” Sobotka always chairs the chair responsibly and to the best of his knowledge, he explained.
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