“The FPÖ posters are horrible and present a totally horrible worldview and aren’t worthy of a traditional election marketing campaign,” says the primary on the crimson checklist within the APA interview. Schieder needs to remain out of the controversy regarding non-public statements made by the Inexperienced Celebration’s high candidate Lena Schilling.
On their posters, as of their total marketing campaign, the Freedom Celebration is extraordinarily vital of the EU; one topic suggests a type of sibling kiss between Fee President Ursula von der Leyen and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Schieder says he isn’t stunned by the FPÖ, which he sees on the best way to an “Öxit”. That is why he is specializing in content material and exhibiting that the election is regarding both making Europe fairer or letting it drift to the appropriate.
Not a “foul” however “meals for thought”
Schieder clearly does not assume it is an issue that his get together has hijacked internet addresses that might usually have been assigned to the FPÖ. When requested, it isn’t a “foul,” says the highest candidate, however fairly “meals for thought.” Much less Europe is a “very harmful path”. The marketing campaign with the online addresses is a method of drawing consideration to this subject by the media – “a method that ought to stimulate thought.”
Schieder doesn’t wish to contact the controversy regarding Schilling’s non-public statements, which have been broadly reported in latest days, particularly by tabloid newspapers. This can be a matter that Schilling and the Greens must reply. He has “sufficient different issues” to do within the election marketing campaign. Schieder averted the query of whether or not such non-public statements would have had something to do with a public dialogue: “I do not wish to remark additional on this affair, it has nothing to do with our election marketing campaign.”
“Thus far it has at all times been regarding offering for an ÖVP politician and Europe is just too good for that.”
The crimson lead candidate does have an opinion concerning the filling of the Austrian place within the EU Fee, which is due in the summertime or autumn: “Thus far it has at all times been regarding offering for an ÖVP politician and Europe is just too good for that.” Subsequently, there’s a want for an open dialogue regarding what {qualifications} and political orientation the particular person ought to have. It’s clear that extra pro-European and social voices are wanted in Europe.
Schieder didn’t wish to determine which methodology the place ought to be awarded exterior of the traditional process. Requested whether or not the strongest get together ought to get the place, he mentioned it was one among a number of potentialities. What he rejects, nonetheless, are “backroom offers.” Apparently the ÖVP and the Greens had already agreed within the authorities settlement that the Individuals’s Celebration would once more present the commissioner: “The 2024 place was offered off in a backroom deal in 2019.”
