Criticism and chaos on Stephasplatz: Media round under fire!

Criticism and chaos on Stephasplatz: Media round under fire!

Wien, Österreich - in Lassee, a new conflict between the political parties is beaming up. A few days ago, the candidates and replacement candidates of the FPÖ and the list 2291 surprisingly gave up their municipal council mandates. This was done after an agreement between the Övp and SPÖ to continue their government coalition. The ÖVP comes to 7 mandates after the last municipal council election, while the SPÖ holds 5 mandates. The FPÖ was able to increase by 4 mandates to 7, and the Citizens' List 2291 lost 4 mandates and is now at 2. The political mood in Lassee is tense because the balance of power has been significantly postponed, such as Noen.at reported.

public outrage after an incident on Stephansplatz

At the same time, an incident at the Vienna Stephasplatz causes excitement on social media. SPÖ, Greens and NEOS have violated the attacks on a journalist and his cameraman. "Full solidarity with the journalist", wrote the federal manager of the SPÖ, Eva-Maria Holzleitner, on the X. SE and others, such as the media spokeswoman for the Neos, Henrike Brandstötter, blame the FPÖ and their handling of "system media" for violent escalation. Caritas President Michael Landau also said and emphasized that nobody could say that he knew nothing about the risks for reporters in situations as krone.at In the meantime, there are also critical voices on the report of the reporter. Some users claim that he was too close to a crowd and thus blocked the view of wheelchair users on the stage, which led to verbal arguments. A user described the whole thing as a "targeted provocation" against the FPÖ. The discussion about this reflects the split opinion in society: While some of the attacks are inappropriate, others see responsibility for the escalation of the situation in the behavior of the reporter.