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“Unfortunately, after the national alliance at the beginning of the corona pandemic, the opposition parties quickly decided to change course,” the vice president said in a statement. In particular, he was “stunned” by the actions of Neos and Freedom Party. This was different during the first corona wave in spring, which the federal government, in its opinion, “managed to control with consistent measures.” At that time the VP was “very impressed” by the “cohesion of all the political parties in our country.”
“Unfortunately, after the national alliance at the beginning of the corona pandemic, the opposition parties quickly decided to change course,” Melchior said. “It leaves us as the People’s Party amazed that FP and Neos in particular put the political interests of the party before the well-being of the Austrians.” And it is “completely incomprehensible why the two sides do not participate in a non-partisan alliance,” Melchior said. Neos and FP refused to approve the blocking regulation in the main committee of the National Council on Tuesday before Christmas, while the SP voted in favor of the VP and Green government factions despite partial criticism.
Apart from the pandemic, Melchior, from the party’s perspective, obtained a positive balance from last year. In particular, the Vienna elections on October 11, in which the VP doubled its share of the votes (certainly from an extremely low level) and took second place, the Secretary General emphasized. “In the era of Sebastian Kurz as president of the Federal Party, it was the eighth consecutive state election that once again confirmed the direction of the new Popular Party.” In general, the election results showed that people reject political piracy, he concluded.
