FPÖ application for the U-Committee: Coalition rejects desire!

FPÖ application for the U-Committee: Coalition rejects desire!

Wien, Österreich - On July 10, 2025, the FPÖ's request for U-committee was rejected in the Regulatory Committee, as [ots] (https://www.ots.at/presseaus-sung/ots_20250710_ots0008/hanger-fpoe-u- Committee- Valance). ÖVP MP Andreas Hanger said that the constitutional conformity of the application was not given. The coalition parties ÖVP, SPÖ and Neos assessed the desire as not sufficiently constitutional law and rejected it with a majority of coalition as "inadmissible".

hanger appealed to the FPÖ to call the Constitutional Court or to revise the object of investigation. Central requirements for such an object of investigation are clear temporal limits and detailed concrete facts that have to refer to completed processes of the federal development. He criticized FPÖ request as vague and vague, since this two different topics clubs-the examination of various Corona measures and the death of the former head of the section Christian Pilnacek.

legal report and criticism

The ÖVP is based on its rejection of the legal appraisal by Christoph Bezemek and Mathis Fister, who doubt the legality of the application. Bezemek assessed the object of the investigation as vague and indefinite, while Fister described the desire as inadmissible, since it does not correspond to the requirements for a "certain" or "completed" process, as it does oe24 notes. Kai Jan Krainer from the SPÖ criticized the mixing of two different topics and pointed out the inadequacy of the application.

The Greens also expressed concerns and pointed out “some formal errors” in the application, but at the same time emphasized the importance of law for control. Nikolaus Scherak from the Neos expressed that he did not see the situation as clearly as ÖVP and SPÖ, but ultimately agreed to the coalition decision.

The way to U-committees

As is generally true in the National Council, this has the right to use committees. This is a crucial element of parliamentary control and is done either by a minority decision or at the request of five MPs. The application must precisely name the subject of the investigation and refer to a certain, completed process in the field of federal development, as [parlament.gv.at] (https://www.parlament.gv.at/ver standing/nationalrat/u-ausschuesse/). Thus, the request of the FPÖ was not compliant with the legal requirements, which ultimately led to its rejection.