Elke Kahr would already be a millionaire if she didn’t give away a large part of her politician’s fee to the needy. At the “Day of Open Accounts” the Styrian KPÖ presented new record amounts of support services.
Eight folders with letters of request, paid electricity bills or paid rent claims were on Thursday in room 236 of the Graz town hall. The Styrian KPÖ had invited to the annual “Day of Open Accounts” and presented exactly what a large part of the salaries of their top politicians was spent on in the past year. The rest of the political fees go into a pot from which needy Styrians are given financial help. Almost 300,000 euros in support in 2022 came from the payments from the Mayor of Graz Elke Kahr, her two city councilors Manfred Eber and Robert Krotzer and from the state parliament club chairwoman Claudia Klimt-Weithaler new record total of 291,138.34 euros. 2076 people were supported with it. “More than half of these people were with us for the first time,” said Kahr, who made it clear: “Nobody gets money without me having met them beforehand.” The Mayor of Graz explained that she was only keeping her 7,921.88 net 2,000 euros and 4,000 euros each from holiday and Christmas bonuses. The rest goes into the pot for support services. Since 2005, Kahr alone has therefore collected a sum of a little more than one million euros. The expenses of the controversial member of parliament Werner Murgg did not appear in the KPÖ statement. For two years he has been inviting people to his own presentation in Upper Styria.
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