After the re-election announcement calls for the Opposition to throw the FPÖ from the government. The Chancellor Briefly, however, will be covered. The future of the Cabinet is not the only open question.

“I will, as well as the Federal President, of course, now, in the next few days the conversation with the new chief of the Freedom party and with the leaders of all other parties represented in Parliament to lead,” says Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. He looks so, of the timetable, at least for the next few days.

Whether it’s a Short up to the elections at the beginning of September with the FPÖ-Ministers further ruled, is unclear. Also, who will follow Strache as Vice-Chancellor. The Opposition demands that all of the FPÖ-Ministers are replaced by experts, notably the Minister of the interior Herbert Kickl – could only give it a complete and independent investigation.

Apparently, the Chancellor is planning to introduce Short already Kickls dismissal. “I assume that the Chancellor will propose to the Federal President to dismiss the Minister of the interior, from the government’s responsibility,” said Chancellery Minister Gernot Blümel on Sunday evening in the ORF news programme “ZiB2”.

FPÖ politician Heinz-Christian Strache, resigned on Saturday.

Van der Bellen summons the ability to act

A change of personnel on a larger scale but costs time. The Federal President and the Federal Chancellor stressed that the government must remain capable of action: “We have this coming Sunday is the vote on the composition of the future European Parliament. And also in this time, Austria must remain capable of action and a reliable Partner in the European Union”, Austrian President Van der Bellen.

The political earthquake at the Federal level has also consequences in the States. In the red-and blue-ruled Burgenland, there could be early elections. The SPÖ-Chairman Hans Peter Doskozil wants to decide today, and has called his coalition partner, the FPÖ for the Rapport.

ORF TV Doskozil said: “It is quite a difficult Situation. It is a Situation that impacted our coalition, of course, more than. It’s not just the incidents of Ibiza. And since you can’t skip even on the agenda. Since we have agreed in the party Presidium, that we us, of course, also in the coalition and that we want to give our coalition partners the possibility.”

so Far, no criminally relevant content

Fixed: The election campaign in Austria on its journey – even in the case of the FPÖ. The Executive Committee met yesterday at a secret location. The Minister of the interior Kickl shot but via Twitter massively against the ÖVP and Short. Not to Austria, but to the Power, so Kickl. At the same time it means that internal party had already erupted into a power struggle, who will take over the presidency of the övp.

The scandal video is now a case for the Supreme public Prosecutor’s office. According to ORF were found in an initial examination of any criminally relevant content. The investigators want to get now but all the Material from Germany.

“mirror” and “SZ” have now been published new Details of the recordings. After that, the evening was in the Villa not a one-time slip-up, like Strache claimed. Rather, it is intended to have further Meetings over an alleged middle-man given. This certainly was not the last act of the Ibiza-Tapes.

Austria before the elections
Kristina Kotter, ARD Wien
19.05.2019 23:28 PM

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