2023-04-19 03:17:50
Tyrol’s Greens boss and club chairman Gebi Mair comes up with heavy criticism of the federal coalition partner ÖVP and calls for a course correction. The People’s Party must find its way back to a “climate and people-friendly course”, otherwise the coalition will “face difficult times,” said Mair in the APA interview. At the latest since the decision for the black-blue coalition in Lower Austria, the ÖVP had made a “political turn to the right”, criticized Mair.
“The ÖVP is blinking in the direction of the FPÖ,” said the club boss. It should be known by now that people with such a course go straight to the “Schmied FPÖ” and not to the “Schmiedl People’s Party”. In any case, Chancellor Karl Nehammer is “right in the front when he makes himself the lead-footed chancellor and declares Austria a car country,” the Greens frontman also harshly criticized the ÖVP Chancellor’s recent climate announcements.
A few years ago, the ÖVP was still ready to take real steps once morest the climate crisis. “In Tyrol, the speed reduction on the Inntal autobahn from 130 to 100 km/h, which was introduced by the black-green state government, saves 20.7 million liters of fuel per year. That corresponds to 51,000 tons of CO2 per year,” Mair pointed out in his opinion positive own government experiences with the ÖVP. The state Greens have now been in opposition since last year’s state elections.
The use of e-fuels – the Federal Chancellor is having experts and scientists discuss the future potential of these synthetic fuels at the “Car Summit” today, Wednesday – “serves the speculators of the fossil age and the interests of the oil states, but not the interests of a sustainable Austrian economy “, criticized Mair. In general, the People’s Party is “currently behaving more as if it were the last generation on this planet,” he etched: “We should all behave as if we and future generations would like to continue living on this planet.”
“At the forefront of ÖVP policy is currently mainly their political self-interest,” the club chairman alluded to current disputes in judicial policy. Instead of a “freedom of information law for all citizens,” the Green coalition partner at federal level “prefers a ban on citing criminal files that affect the party itself.” The Greens, meanwhile, are “undeterred in any case for climate protection and transparency, here there is full support for our ministers Leonore Gewessler and Alma Zadic”.
Mair also targeted blacks when it came to campaign spending and the use of public funds. But this does not only affect the federal party. “Even in Tyrol, the People’s Party ultimately spent more money on the state election campaign than previously publicly announced,” recalled Mair, who was elected state spokesman for the first time in March.
The club chairman’s attacks on black continued in another area of politics. “The ÖVP has been the patron saint of speculators for a long time. This has recently been seen in the blocking of a rental price cap for tenants. In addition, the ÖVP is preventing a nationwide vacancy tax on housing speculation, where the blocking attitude even goes too far for the state’s mainstream parties,” said Mair.
Meanwhile, the Tyrolean Greens frontman did not let the federal SPÖ out of the draw. In the Social Democracy there is also a risk of “deviation to the right if the Doskozil course prevails once morest immigrants”. “Even the SPÖ must first show with their top election whether they are heading for a traffic light coalition or for red-blue,” Mair told the Reds.
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