“Without seriousness” – “Big” coalition in Lower Austria is now threatening to fail

Peace, joy, wrong thought! In the coalition negotiations in Lower Austria, things are currently in tip-top shape. The SPÖ sees five conditions that are almost impossible for the ÖVP to meet as the lower limit for a coalition agreement. The ÖVP lacks – probably because of this – the necessary seriousness in the talks.

It was impaled in the negotiations between the People’s Party and the Social Democrats after the state elections. First observers are concerned whether the two factions will still be able to agree before the March 23 parliamentary session. Since the advance of the SPÖ on Friday, things have been going great in the government district. Job guarantee, a heat price cap, childcare, employment for caring relatives and regionalization from medical offices to police stations to postal partners and the Internet – these five key points are the SPÖ’s lower limit for a pact with the ÖVP. Federal dispute at state level? On Tuesday is negotiated again – but on been replaced. This caused unrest in the ranks of the ÖVP. The “practically unaffordable job guarantee” and the realization that the Reds could make friends with the “opposition role” are stumbling blocks. “I have the feeling that some in the SPÖ are trying to bring the current conflict of direction within the federal SPÖ into the country. By deliberately building up immovable hurdles in order to establish themselves in the opposition,” explains chief negotiator Jochen Danninger.ÖVP hopes for “constructive forces”One hopes that the constructive forces of Lower Austrian social democracy will prevail very soon. According to Danninger, in order to implement the SPÖ demands paper, it is necessary for the ÖVP to give up essential basic principles – and it probably won’t play that role. In addition, time is of the essence. “In the next few days it must be clear in which direction things are going,” one hears from ÖVP circles. SPÖ speaks of “productive talks” “Today’s talks about our lighthouse projects and their financing were productive,” says SPÖ club chairman Hannes Weninger. “Our core demands, if we also consider counter-financing, make up less than 3 percent of the state budget,” he adds. With the ÖVP, however, the same calculation leads to a different result. . . An ÖVP pact with the currently remarkably quiet FPÖ can no longer be ruled out. Only then with Johanna Mikl-Leitner? As is well known, the Blues do not want to and will not elect Mikl-Leitner as state governor.
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