Neßler on the FPÖ youth video: The FPÖ uses tax money to spread hate and hate speech

2023-08-28 14:39:39

Mikl-Leitner has to set limits for her coalition partner

Vienna (OTS) – “The recently published video of the Austrian Freedom Youth shows in a shockingly clear visual and spoken message what has been running through the entire Freedom Party lately: the focus on agitating against other people and institutions and on the resurrection of dictatorial dream regime. And all of this is financed with taxpayer money,” criticizes the youth spokeswoman for the Greens, Barbara Neßler.

“As a youth spokeswoman, I think it is essential to point out what young people are being served up as a role model: the video contains some books by the right-wing extremist Antaios Verlag, whose boss Götz Kubitschek can be considered the foster father of the identities and is being observed by the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Alain de Benoist, the founder of the so-called ‘New Right’ in France, to whom the Identitarians largely refer, also appears as a literature suggestion, as does Karlheinz Weißmann, whose revisionist view of history is accused of ‘trivializing the Holocaust’. Furthermore, a writing by the Portuguese dictator Oliveira Salazar is advertised, as well as a book by Benedikt Kaiser, who was active in the environment of the later banned ‘National Socialists Chemnitz’ until 2011 and now hires himself out as a right-wing extremist author and lecturer. A book by the French Nazi collaborator Pierre Drieu la Rochelle can also be found here. Then images are shown showing representatives of the so-called Conservative Revolution, such as Ernst Jiinger, who can be considered the ideological pioneers of National Socialism. The Japanese fascist and putschist Yukio Mishima is represented here, as is Armin Mohler, who volunteered for the Waffen SS,” says Nessler.

In the video itself, reference is made to the “political education work” of the Freedom Youth. “In my opinion, what is sold to young people as political education should be seriously questioned,” Nessler notes. Even the deputy governor, Udo Landbauer, insists on making his contribution in this video. “How Landbauer acts has been known for a long time. But he continues to live out his political transgressions unabashedly as a government partner of the ÖVP by appearing in this hodgepodge,” criticizes Nessler and calls on Landbauer’s coalition partner to take action: “Lately, Mikl-Leitner has not missed any opportunity to speak out against the To rant about gender or the fight against climate change. But when it comes to spreading hate and hate speech from her coalition partner, she remains staunchly silent. I therefore call on Mikl-Leitner to set limits for her coalition partner and to make it clear that a video like this, for example, crosses all lines of democratic consensus.