Korosec Re-elected as President of the Senior Citizens' Association and the ÖVP Seniors

Both elections took place during the National Senior Citizens' Day in Vienna. The 84-year-old Vienna ÖVP state parliament member and former ÖVP Secretary General will remain in office for another five years. She intends to continue her fight against age discrimination, as stated in a press release on Friday.

Korosec: "I want a legal prohibition of age discrimination"

"I want a legal prohibition of age discrimination," emphasized Korosec. Particularly in the areas of digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI), she demands "zero tolerance" for age discrimination. Additionally, the Senior Citizens' Association must be involved earlier and more intensively in negotiations for the annual pension increase; there is already a commitment to this. Korosec had criticized the current decision, which states that inflation is only fully compensated for pensions up to 2,500 euros per month.

This year, the Federal Administrative Court (BVwG) decided that the Austrian Senior Citizens' Association is not part of the People's Party. This followed a legal dispute due to the formal dual existence of the Senior Citizens' Association as part of the party and as an association. As the latter, the nationwide active Austrian Senior Citizens' Association applied for and received funding from the so-called NPO Fund during the COVID-19 pandemic. The ÖVP has renamed its sub-organization to "ÖVP Seniors," and "Senior Citizens' Association" now only refers to the association.

(APA/Red)

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