Even following the guilty verdict, Sebastian Kurz willingly faced the media and interpreted the outcome of the proceedings from his perspective: “I was acquitted of two out of three allegations.” On the question of the appointments to the supervisory board, he stuck to his description that he found the condemnation to be “very unfair.” Kurz is now hoping for a successful appeal: “I am very optimistic that we will be right in the second instance.”
For ÖVP General Secretary Christian Stocker, the first instance guilty verdict once morest former Chancellor and former ÖVP boss Sebastian Kurz is “surprising”. After all, there were a lot of exculpatory statements in the evidence process, Stocker said in a broadcast. However, the decision should be “noted”. The verdict was less unexpected for the SPÖ and NEOS.Wien. “The ‘Kurst Era’ will keep the courts busy for years to come,” believes SPÖ MP. Jan Krainer, who served as faction leader in the current COFAG and in the past two U-committees (Ibiza, ÖVP corruption). Today’s guilty verdict is a smaller venue for the legal analysis of the “Kurz system,” said Krainer.
For NEOS boss Beate Meinl-Reisinger, this process was not just regarding a statement from Kurz. Rather, it’s “regarding respect for democratic institutions like parliament,” emphasized the NEOS boss: “And it’s regarding a system, a system of post corruption, advertisement corruption, self-service. It’s regarding the parties SPÖ, ÖVP and FPÖ have created a system that finally needs to be changed.”
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Stocker emphasized that this was an initial judgment. This will now be examined in the appeal process. “It therefore remains unclear how the appeal court will assess the evidence and the procedure,” said the ÖVP general secretary: “I would have wished Sebastian Kurz and Bernhard Bonelli that a different decision would have been made in the first instance proceedings.”
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