"Everything's on Fire": Government for Gewessler Only a World Champion in Announcing

With a comprehensive critique of the federal government, the Greens are entering the political autumn. Green leader Leonore Gewessler accused the three-party coalition on Thursday at a press conference of negligence in gun laws, climate protection, childcare, and combating inflation. In recent weeks and months, there have been major announcements, but serious legislative drafts are lacking, criticized Gewessler, calling it an "announcement world champion coalition."

Greens accuse three-party coalition of comprehensive inactivity

In the approximately six-month term of the black-red-pink government, the problems have not become smaller, but larger, stated the Green leader. "Everything is burning and this government is practicing sugarcoating," said Gewessler. As an example, she mentioned the announced tightening of gun laws. The continued absence of a legislative draft has "fatal consequences" because since the announcement, gun sales have skyrocketed and more weapons are being sold daily.

Inaction in the face of inflation

Gewessler sharply criticized the newly revealed draft law for a new climate law, which she called a "climate policy declaration of bankruptcy." Announcement after announcement from the government also follows with inflation, she criticized. The government's inaction while effective measures from the last legislative period expire further fuels the situation. And with the "true price driver energy," the government is "on the wrong track" with the electricity market law.

Government according to Gewessler in "lifestyle leisure"

In vain and increasingly desperate, many people would also be waiting for a concrete draft law on the announced new training period. Gewessler also accused the three-party coalition of inactivity in childcare. With regard to the, in her view, cynical part-time debate that Minister of Economic Affairs Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer (ÖVP) has sparked, the question arises, "who is in lifestyle part-time," said the Green Party leader. For her, it is the three-party coalition: "This government lives by the motto: It's not what is achieved that counts, but what is told is enough."

ÖVP and SPÖ reject criticism

The "green crowbar" is a minority program and not capable of gaining a majority, countered the ÖVP to the criticism. Secretary General Nico Marchetti called on Gewessler to work with the government on feasible solutions for climate protection that are also implementable in the current tense economic situation. As a former Minister of Climate Protection, she has significantly contributed to the state of the national budget, said the ÖVP Secretary General.

The SPÖ also saw a clear co-responsibility of the Greens for the current situation. Federal Managing Director Klaus Seltenheim criticized Gewessler's "unspeakable sweeping attack" as an unsurpassable "chutzpah." "We are socially justly consolidating the budget, strengthening the rights of workers, introducing a climate check for laws, tightening gun laws, and establishing the independent federal prosecutor's office - all of which Gewessler and the Greens have not delivered," said Seltenheim.

"In the first four months alone, this federal government has brought about 44 initiatives in the form of legislative resolutions, while the black-green government only 34," calculated the pink Secretary General Douglas Hoyos and spoke of "cheap criticism."

(APA/Red)

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