Green start petition: No FPÖ in the National Council Presidium!

Green start petition: No FPÖ in the National Council Presidium!

In the past few days, the political landscape has taken on trips after the latest National Council elections in Austria. The Greens have started an online petition to prevent the election of a Freedom National Council President. Under the slogan "No right -wing extremists at the head of the National Council", they want to set a clear sign and mobilize supporters.

The FPÖ has positioned itself as the strongest force in the election and automatically claims the right to propose for the National Council President. This tradition is essentially undisputed: representatives of the ÖVP and also the second National Council President Doris Bures from the SPÖ support the common practice, which attributes the office to a member of the strongest party. While the NEOs do not in principle speak against a Freedom National Council President, they emphasize that the person matters.

constituent meeting of the National Council

The situation is particularly tense because the constituent meeting of the National Council will take place on October 24th. By this date, the candidates for the three -member presidium must be determined. The special thing about this choice is that the president must come from the ranks of the MPs and should have a valid mandate. Even if there is no strict regulation that the strongest party has to fill the presidential office, this is often seen as accepted practice.

The Greens aim with their petition to make not only the FPÖ but also the other parties to rethink. "We would like to make it clear that we have no understanding of a free National Council President," said a spokesman for the Greens when the initiative was presented. This is done in a climate that is both politically and socially polarized and the citizens also challenges in their beliefs.

The course that the Greens have taken is also all about wider reactionism towards right -wing extremist tendencies in politics, which many citizens and political observers see as a justifying reason for the petition. According to information from www.meinbezirk.at Intensive discussion within the population about the role and responsibility of political parties.

The coming weeks could therefore be crucial for the political direction of the country. If you think of the conversations between the FPÖ, ÖVP and SPÖ, which have already been determined, it becomes clear that the question of the distribution of offices is of great importance. It remains to be seen whether the Greens will be heard with their petition, but they have already given an important political impulse.