2023-11-19 23:00:10
Innsbruck (OTS) – The black-red state government has maneuvered itself into an obvious decision-making vacuum. At the end of the year, the government’s engine is sputtering, and at the same time the distrust of the opposition is increasing month by month.
The challenges in the state are great, but the black-red state government is heading towards the end of the year with more unanswered questions than answers. Too many construction sites have opened up in the past few months, a large proportion of which are inherited legacy issues. New problems have also arisen, such as the swimming pool misery, which threatens to sink the black and red team. At the same time, almost fourteen months following the state elections, distrust has spread between the government and the opposition parties FPÖ, List Fritz, the Greens and NEOS.
The state government cannot survive into the coming year with the state budget. Because with net new debt of 178 million euros and a peak debt level of 1.175 billion euros, political trappings have to be done rather quietly. So what’s wrong with the current engine of government?
The financial bankruptcy of the market town of Matrei in East Tyrol, the bankruptcy of the municipal association’s own service company GemNova, the disputes over the Zillertalbahn, in which a decision for a hydrogen drive was made in advance and without critical analysis, or now the pause button for the new MCI building, which cost 250 million euros in Innsbruck, the state government was put on the defensive almost in a staccato manner. Not to forget the financial followingmath of the 2019 Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld. Despite admittedly difficult conditions, it is Governor Anton Mattle (ÖVP) and his coalition partner LHStv. Georg Dornauer (SPÖ) has so far not been able to convey political problem-solving skills convincingly. Not even on a topic as emotional as swimming pools.
The pause for reflection on the new MCI building does not solve the task, but merely delays it. Red-Black also pushes the tense relationship with the state energy supplier Tiwag in front of them like a junk shop. Chamber of Labor President Erwin Zangerl is setting the pace here – already looking ahead to the chamber elections at the end of January. Because it is far from enough if Mattle and Dornauer always criticize Tiwag’s communication strategy; what matters is what electricity price is on the customers’ bills.
Too much has built up politically recently, so the state government must finally get into decision-making mode. As she demonstrated with childcare. Black and red are still miles away from design anyway.
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