2024-02-14 17:01:36
This year, the FPÖ’s Ash Wednesday event, which took place in the Jahnturnhalle in Ried in the evening, was once more preceded by a counter-demonstration following breaks – mainly due to corona. For the 31st time, the Blues are using the day of the carnival sweepstakes to clean up their politics. Reason for the “Grandmas Against the Right” to send a peaceful signal for a “democratic and cosmopolitan society”. Between 200 and 300 people responded to their call.
In addition, the Kultur.Land.Impulse association was already hosting a “cultural-political Ash Wednesday” at 4 p.m. in the “Giesserei” in Ried, including a lecture by historian from the University of Salzburg Margit Reiter on the topic “What’s old becomes new? National Socialism and its beginnings the FPÖ – a search for clues” has been loaded. At the same time, demonstrators for “sticking together once morest the right” gathered at the train station in Ried. With “Defend yourselves, resist, once morest fascism here in the country, go to the barricades, go to the barricades” they sang and got in the mood for their march through the city. Half an hour later, the demonstrators had reached their destination, the market square opposite the Jahnturnhalle, to spread a sea of lights once morest fascism with cell phones and lighters. “We don’t need Kickl, it’s only available at Wickl,” a poster was held up facing the other side of the street.
A long line of FPÖ sympathizers had already formed in front of the gym entrance. For 18 euros, around 2,000 supporters can expect something hearty from the party leadership in addition to a herring feast and a drink. Herbert Kickl will take the lectern for the second time. At lunchtime, Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen had already called on the parties – the ÖVP and SPÖ also invited people to political Ash Wednesday in Carinthia and Styria – to moderate their tone in their speeches. You shouldn’t make fun of “the others”, look down on them or portray them as “the bad ones, the incompetent ones, the corrupt ones”. As “Federal President, as a citizen, as a fellow human being, perhaps sometimes as ‘the other’,” he asks us to pause. “The events of the last few days and the upcoming election year make it more necessary than ever,” were the warning words of the Federal President.
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