A generationn Austria has the Federal Chancellor of the Christian Democratic People’s Party Sebastian Kurz Almost confirmed as chairman by a closed majority vote. In Sankt Polten, Lower Austria, Kurz won 99.4% of the delegates’ votes at a party meeting on Saturday. This is the first time Kurz has faced re-election since he took over as leader of the party in 2017. At that time, he had persuaded 98.7% of the representatives present.
However, since then, the National Assembly has held elections in advance, in which vice president It became the strongest force for the first time since 2002. The center-right alliance with FPÖ was disintegrated in the Ibiza incident and won the ÖVP election again. After that, the Green Party replaced FPÖ as the alliance partner. In addition, several FPÖ and ÖVP representatives including Kurz himself (including Kurz himself) were also investigated for three lockdowns and prosecutors for allegedly making false statements in the investigation committee. In light of numerous calls for resignation and speculation about new elections, the results of the Party Congress means that ÖVP is building a carriage castle around its chairman.
At the same time, Kurz thought of resigning
Kurz has always denied the allegations of deliberate misrepresentation, and in his speech he described the past few months as “challenging” for him personally. Attacks by the political opposition will be more personal and severe, and will be carried out “recently” and “continuously report to the prosecutor.” Kurz said that after investigating him, he played with the idea of resigning: He asked himself “I am really there” and whether he can continue to expect his family to do so. The support of his own team kept him going, but in retrospect (the investigation is still ongoing), this burden “makes him stronger, and most importantly, more determined.”
In the contributions of other speakers and film recordings, the impact and side effects of the Ibiza incident, especially in the U-Committee, are increasingly targeted at ÖVP staff and described as political motivations of the opposition. The unified motive of the “joint opposition” is: “I will leave soon”, this sentence has been said several times. The SPÖ Social Democratic Party regards the Federal Chancellery as their “hereditary farm”.Kurz mentioned the former ÖVP boss and the Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Bowl, He asked him if “that” would never stop. Shussel said dryly: “Yes. It would be better if the vice president was no longer the first.” However, it is worth noting that—unlike some of the previous statements—there is nothing about the media or Allegations of bias in the judiciary.
Otherwise, Kurz will not attack political opponents. In terms of content, he still didn’t have any surprising announcements. To fight the pandemic, he said: “The vaccine is the answer, not the lockdown.” Skeptics should be educated and persuaded, but they should not be dismissed. As a basic value, he emphasized that freedom is “the greatest benefit of democracy”, personal responsibility, and effort before distribution.
Oppose the “car hostility” of alliance partners
Kurz announced programmatically that, despite the pandemic, it has already begun tax relief for small and medium incomes and will continue. In terms of greening, climate protection should not be compared with economic location and social security.This can be seen as a prudent instruction to the Green Alliance partners, especially because Party Congress No further discussion) took a stand against the main motion of “car hostility”. Kurz said: “What is needed is progress and innovation, not regression and bans.”
Kurz sees digitalization as the biggest challenge in the future, and it is very important to be a leader in the future. In this regard, Europe lags behind the United States and China. In this regard, infrastructure, research and management should be digitally expanded. Starting this fall, students should be equipped with tablets or laptops. When talking about the educational reforms in the 1970s, Kurz said it was “the biggest school reform since the introduction of free textbooks.” Kurz often referred to Bruno Kreski, then Prime Minister of the Social Democratic Party, as one of his role models.
Kurz simply talked about the controversial immigration issue in the “turquoise green” alliance, especially the issue of receiving Afghan refugees. He regards “onsite help” as Austria’s “Christian social responsibility”. Under his responsibility, development assistance has increased tenfold. But Austria has also made an “incredible” contribution to receiving refugees. Austria already has the “fourth largest Afghan community” with more than 40,000 people. One should not “absorb more people than we can integrate”.
Shortly before the party meeting, Tyrolean Green Party Chairman Ingrid Felipe reiterated the diametrically opposite position of the Green Party. They hope to send a signal against the “inhumane practice of the turquoise shirt” on the issue of Afghanistan, that is, “the vote on Kurtz at the Federal Party meeting is not that big”. The ÖVP representative of St. Pölten obviously had a different view.
