The provincial governor should no longer have a say in the appointment of the provincial director. All Salzburg parties agree on this. The head of state would also have no problem with a new regulation.
If the post of state director is reassigned at the ORF, the respective state governors have an important say. The ORF federal law provides for this. Apparently nobody in Salzburg is happy with this regulation. Even Governor Wilfried Haslauer (ÖVP) does not depend on this right to have a say. “Abolition would be perfectly fine, you would only have to change the ORF law,” says his office. The other parties in Salzburg see it similarly. “No politician should have a right of veto at the ORF,” says SPÖ leader David Egger. “I see no need for this rule. Why does the state director need the favor of the state governor?” asks FPÖ leader Marlene Svazek. She would abolish this regulation immediately. Greens and Neos also want to delete this passage. “This should be abolished urgently. There is always the suspicion that it is a director by the grace of the governor. That’s not good for the person at the top either,” says Simon Heilig-Hofbauer from the Greens. Neos boss Andrea Klambauer says: “I take a very critical view of this right to co-determination.” Local councilor Kay-Michael Dankl from the KPÖ Plus sees it similarly: “It is absurd that the provincial governor interferes in the appointment of the provincial directors. This paragraph in the ORF law should be abolished.” For him, public broadcasting must be committed to the population and not to the governing parties. The parties are also practically unanimous in favor of a reform when it comes to GIS fees.
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