“The emergency competence falls first and foremost to the city senate,” says Nepp. Ludwig apparently wanted to keep the procedure a secret, he suspected. It is therefore necessary to report it. The mayor has recently made repeated use of his emergency competence, for example with Corona aid. At the time, there were no allegations that the city senate did not exercise its powers. Probably nobody noticed that it might not have been legal either, said the FPÖ leader.