In an announcement to the APA, the ORF rejected the allegations. The query that the ORF editor had requested was a purely journalistic one on a present political subject with none insinuations towards Vilimsky.
ORF journalist spokesman Dieter Bornemann additionally harassed on “X” that the query “The fitting-wing populists and right-wing extremists within the European Parliament are very divided. How do you persuade voters that it’s not a misplaced vote?” was journalistically right. It was professional “as a result of the FPÖ, not like Le Pen, didn’t finish its cooperation with the AfD after the Krah case.” The AfD was excluded from the ID group within the EU Parliament, to which the FPÖ additionally belongs, after criticism of the feedback made by its prime EU candidate Maximilian Krah concerning the SS. The FPÖ voted towards the exclusion of all the get together.