In the Ö1 “Journal zu Gast” Hacker said on Saturday that compulsory vaccination was “not a highlight of Austria’s corona policy”. The fact that the SPÖ and Mayor Michael Ludwig supported the obligation to vaccinate was due to the “national consensus”. The SPÖ did not like this measure, but supported it out of solidarity. “That may have been a mistake,” Hacker admitted.
The core problem was the politicization of the entire package of measures. Hacker said that Vienna’s special path in the pandemic was “never our intention” to pass it off as “the red trademark”.
Hackers cannot gain much from the “dialogue process” announced by Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) to deal with the corona pandemic and the measures taken by politicians. He doesn’t do much “with the chancellor’s chair group,” Hacker said.
The Viennese FPÖ boss Dominik Nepp strongly criticized the statements of the city council. In a broadcast, Nepp described the statement that Ludwig only supported the vaccination requirement in the national consensus as “stupid lying around”. “The fact is that Ludwig was the driving force behind compulsory corona vaccination. How cowardly can you be that you are now trying to deny your own actions and lie to the Viennese,” said Nepp.
