Coalition talks: FPÖ and ÖVP light the Turbo for 2025!

Coalition talks: FPÖ and ÖVP light the Turbo for 2025!

Austria's political stage vibrates: From Monday, January 20, 2025, the coalition negotiations between the FPÖ and the ÖVP will enter into a decisive phase. As Today is used in 13 subgroups on central topics such as finance, taxes, infrastructure and integration. The Business Association Harald Mahrer and the former State Secretary Hubert Fuchs lead the negotiations in group 5, while large throws in the integration area of Hannes Amesbauer for the FPÖ and the Interior Minister Gerhard Karner are developed for the ÖVP. The controversial topics such as the implementation of blocked road construction projects and a headscarf ban for girls up to 14 years old are particularly careful.

secretly filmed statements provide excitement

In the shade of these political debates, a scandal about secretly filmed statements by FPÖ politicians ensures excitement. Secretary General Christian Hafenecker remembered the procedure that reminded of "GDR methods" after the Standard published a video of an FPÖ event. There, the MPs expressed that it was "miserable" and referred to refugees as "rabble". These statements led to the sharp criticism of the Greens and SPÖ, while the ÖVP showed "strange". Hafenecker defended the FPÖ and at the same time announced the development of a new “FPÖ media house” to strengthen party-owned communication and to defend itself against alleged left-wing media manipulations.

The FPÖ has set itself the goal of expanding its media presence with already 154,000 daily spectators at FPÖ TV. Hafenecker described his party as a leadership on social media and announced that the FPÖ will further intensify its initiatives in this direction. Especially when the conversations with the ÖVP are getting closer, internal controversy no longer seem to tolerate, while the political actors face the challenge of consolidating their positions.