2023-08-14 20:00:00
Right at the beginning of the second edition of this year’s interview series, the Green Party leader made it clear that he would not take back his “pre-fascistoid” saying in the direction of the Lower Austrian ÖVP governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner. He’s not afraid of the turquoise-green climate, because: “I don’t have a coalition with the state governor.”
“Don’t think she means it”
Kogler had described Mikl-Leitner’s statements regarding “normal-thinking” people as “extremely dangerous and, moreover, pre-Fascistoid”. He stays there regarding a month later. “I pointed out that such an approach and such a use of language means that it is comparable to times that we already had,” he said in the “summer talk”. Addendum: “I don’t believe at all that the woman governor means that.”
Anti-inflation: Kogler defends measures
Kogler was one with the coalition partner in the federal government, the ÖVP, when it came to defending the recipes once morest inflation, which were there despite all criticism. So regarding direct payments, tax cuts and pension increases. A VAT reduction for staple foods would only be the ultima ratio if food prices developed differently than in Germany. Exactly that would be the much criticized “watering can”.
“Don’t declare banks to be enemies”
Kogler also understands the dissatisfaction with regard to the imbalance between rising loan interest rates and savings interest rates, which remain at a low level. But you have to be careful not to declare the banks to be enemies. Possible answers here would be, in addition to an excess profit tax, which is “not out of the world” yet, an increase in the bank levy and consumer protection measures that have already been taken.
Climate: “See opportunities and not sacrifice”
When it comes to the actual core issue of the Greens, climate protection, Kogler was optimistic that something would go further in this legislative period – even if more and more deniers of climate change would “gang together” in Parliament and merge with the “Putin friends” of the FPÖ. In any case, the Vice Chancellor believes that he can still enforce the Climate Protection Act. “You also have to see the opportunities and not the sacrifices,” he appealed.
“Even the Strache has a claim”
In the judiciary, Kogler is in favor of improving the rights of the accused – especially apart from clamorous cases, as recently with his blue predecessor as Vice Chancellor, Heinz-Christian Strache. There must be more replacements if it turns out that someone has been investigated for a long time and is then innocent. Kogler also recalled the animal rights activists’ process, but “Strache also has a right to it”.
Top candidate: “That’s my intention”
Kogler did not show himself tired of politics. With regard to the upcoming National Council elections, he said: “I’m also applying for the top candidacy. That’s my intention.”
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