2023-09-25 18:07:35
Lower Austria’s governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner (ÖVP) is calling on the federal government to speed up the energy cost subsidy 2 and is sticking to her call for a waiver of the increase in the CO2 tax. The Greens’ braking on energy cost subsidies was “grossly negligent”, criticized Mikl-Leitner on Monday evening at the business talk by Thomas Prantner’s consulting agency C3. She sharply criticized the Financial Market Authority (FMA) because of its lending rules.
The Lower Austrian governor warned of numerous bankruptcies if companies burdened by high costs were not helped quickly with the energy cost subsidy 2 agreed in December. Despite rejection from the federal ÖVP, Mikl-Leitner also stuck to her demand for a suspension of the regular increase in CO2 pricing set by the ÖVP and the Greens as part of the eco-social tax reform. The general conditions have changed due to inflation, so the federal government must react.
Mikl-Leitner shot sharply at the FMA because of the stricter rules for real estate lending. In the FMA there are “managers in the ivory tower” who have “obviously completely lost touch with reality,” criticized the state governor. It is difficult enough to create property in view of high construction costs and rising interest rates, “there is no need for an independent authority like the FMA, which throws even more stones and beatings at the feet of families and young people.” Once once more she called for a “total” relaxation or general repeal of the KIM regulation by the FMA.
When asked, Mikl-Leitner did not want to give a clear rejection of a possible coalition with the FPÖ under party leader Herbert Kickl at the federal level. The state governor said she has “100% trust” in Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) and will not give anyone any advice, “of course he also has my trust in his assessment of Kickl.” Nehammer has ruled out a coalition with Kickl’s participation. In Lower Austria, the cooperation with the FPÖ works “technically, objectively without friction,” said Mikl-Leitner.
Mikl-Leitner categorically ruled out the possibility that she might run in the next federal presidential election. She said she would run once more as the ÖVP’s top candidate in the 2028 state elections.
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