Due to a racist poem by a FPÖ-politician from his office as Vice-mayor and left the party, because the Chancellor had Short massive pressure on the coalition partner.
in The end the pressure was too great: After his heavily-criticized “rats poem” came back to the FPÖ functionary and Vice-mayor of Braunau, Christian Schilcher,. The last Federal Chancellor of Austria, Sebastian called for his right-wing coalition partners to distance themselves immediately from a racist Statement by a functionary.
in The morning, the Vice-Chancellor and FPÖ head Heinz Christian Strache, said that Schilcher from the FPÖ was beaten and his office have put – harm to the party to avert, such as Strache in Vienna said. Such a fail of a party’s behavior with the principles of Liberty are not compatible.
For Strache a “logical step”
therefore, it is the logical step, “to pull these clear and unambiguous consequences,” said Strache. “Since a picture was drawn, it has to do with our self-image thing and also is not compatible.” Schilcher’ve resorted to “in the truest sense of the word in the political garbage”.
Over the Easter holidays Braunaus Vice-mayor in a party newspaper, the freedom party is a poem with the title “The town rat. “Rodent with sewer background)” published in the people with rats were compared. In addition, it was moved here about migrants. Among other things, it said:
“So, how we live down here, and rats, the as guest’ or migrants, even those we’ve never seen before, the way to life to share with us! Or rapidly from thence to rush!”
country wide outrage after the publication of
Schilchers the country of publication had caused wide indignation: the Chancellor is Short and the upper Austrian Governor Thomas Stelzer requested that the FPÖ, the coalition in the Federal and in upper Austria, the conservative people’s party, dissociated themselves from the Text.
on Easter Monday it had rejected Schilcher, to draw personal consequences. He only want to provoke and disrespected, “the comparison of human and rat charged historically, and more than unfortunate.”
Chancellor Brief called for an “immediate and unequivocal distancing and clarification by the FPÖ.
“Disgusting, inhuman, deeply racist”
The word choice was abominable, people wrote hateful, deeply racist and got lost in upper Austria and in the whole country, the Chancellor Briefly in a statement and called for an “immediate and unequivocal distancing and clarification by the FPÖ in upper Austria. Here must not be looking the other way, but it must be drawn clear boundaries.”
With today’s statement by his Deputy, showed up Briefly satisfied: On Twitter, wrote a Short, Schilchers resignation was the only logical consequence of the vile and racist poem. The “clear step” of the Vice-Chancellor and FPÖ-to-peak is necessary and right.
For Austria’s opposition parties, however, the distancing of the Federal Chancellor is insufficient. Short now had to pull the ripcord, said the leader of the Faction list Now, the had of the Green cleaved.
FPÖ-Chef Strache draws, once again, the emergency brake
Clemens Verenkotte, ARD Wien
23.04.2019 13:00
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