2023-06-16 05:34:28
Andreas Babler has hardly been the new party leader of the SPÖ when the latter changes the line proclaimed under Pamela Rendi-Wagner in the National Council: the blocking of legislative projects that require a two-thirds majority and thus the support of the Social Democrats should no longer be continued. “We are now ready to talk,” said the new executive club chairman Philip Kucher on Thursday evening on ORF’s ZiB2. The way the SP club deals with Ukraine should also change.
The line of no longer providing the coalition of ÖVP and Greens with votes, either for a simple or for a two-thirds majority, was issued by the SPÖ under Rendi-Wagner and their club vice Jörg Leichtfried in mid-May. At the height of the internal SPÖ leadership conflict, further anti-inflation measures were to be enforced. As a result, the Energy Efficiency Act failed, and the coalition had to get a much slimmed down version of it through the House of Representatives.
Now that should change once more. “We will go a completely new way,” said Kucher. The SPÖ announcement was an emergency measure to force the government to move. The new line according to Kucher: The federal government is required to submit what has been promised. If she doesn’t do that, she’ll get the bill from the population anyway.
Furthermore, one wants to take full measures once morest inflation, he underlined. But you want to take a close look at proposals for climate protection. “If it’s of use to the people, we’ll be there,” says Kucher. This applies, for example, to the Renewable Heat Act, he said when asked, but only if the tenants did not have to bear the costs of the heating conversion. But the SPÖ also wants to agree to an amendment to the prohibition law.
According to Kucher, not only the voting behavior of the SPÖ will change, but also how it deals with Ukraine. He regretted the fact that many of the Social Democratic MPs were absent from the speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in parliament in March – he himself was not. “I’m fundamentally sorry that our performance at the time gave the impression that we didn’t stand behind Ukraine and the people,” he said. This was discussed intensively: “I believe that this will not happen once more.”
Kucher was originally a supporter of Babler’s adversary, Hans Peter Doskozil, in the struggle for the SPÖ presidency. Now, however, Babler has been elected party leader in a democratic decision, “and following the talks of the last few days, I don’t regret this decision at all.” Kucher was really enthusiastic regarding the new boss: “I think he’s really a good person.”
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