In May, Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) visited the Kleinwalsertal and did not keep the prescribed minimum distance, which angered many. Now an answer to the query from the Interior Ministry is causing trouble again, because apparently the distance rule did not apply to the Chancellor.
AUSTRIA. The NEOS asked the Ministry of the Interior whether it was checked at the time which of the people who were less than the minimum distance lived in the same household. They also wanted to know why the assembly was not dissolved when they noticed these violations.
Rules do not apply to chancellors
The ministry’s response is now upset. “It was evidently family groups.” In addition, the relaxation regulation stipulates that the one-meter rule “does not apply to activities within the sphere of influence of the organs of legislation and enforcement”. Therefore, there were no notifications on the evening in question for violations of this regulation or the Covid 19 Measures Act.
“Some are the same”
This statement caused outrage at NEOS health spokesman Gerald Loacker. “This shows once again the ÖVP’s understanding of politics: All people are the same, but some are the same. The Chancellor and his people are allowed to do everything, the population is not allowed to do so,” said a statement to the APA. “The fact that Chancellor Kurz’s own ordinances did not have to be complied with must first be melted in your mouth. That is the summit of the iceberg.”
Loacker for general amnesty
For Loacker, the Corona Virus laws have been passed imprecisely and hastily. “While individual people in the park were checked and, as we know today, wrongly punished, it was not necessary to dissolve a crowd of people in Kleinwalsertal or to check the relationship between the people. The main thing is that the Chancellor can be cheered” said the health spokesman. “There was a whistle on people’s health, on the role of a chancellor and a governor, but also on political responsibility,” continues Loacker, and therefore calls for a general amnesty for violations under the Covid 19 Measures Act.
SPÖ demands general amnesty for violations of corona rules
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