ANALYSIS. The industrialist Stefan Pierer wants turquoise blue. However, neither he nor Kickl likes the example he uses. He might as well have named any other state. So much for understanding the constitution and democracy.
Demands for the next government are at an industry conference in Linz formulated been: reducing bureaucracy and tax cuts are the focus. They were represented by the President of the Upper Austrian Parliament in the presence of the state governors Thomas Stelzer and Johanna Mikl-Leitner (both ÖVP). Industrial association, KTM board member and ex-Turquoise supporter Stefan Pierer.
The 67-year-old wants a reform government, emphasizes that the IV is equidistant from all parties, but has personal preferences. Quote: He has a lot to do in Switzerland. And according to the local constitution, “the two parties with the largest number of votes must form a government. There’s no need for Van der Bellen.” Mikl-Leitner found this funny. She laughed alongside. It’s impossible to say about what exactly.
Pierer undoubtedly gets around a lot and is an entrepreneur who has also achieved success. However, he took little with him politically from Switzerland. Here he is doing what unfortunately happens very often: cherry-picking in order to bake some kind of cake that has nothing to do with the original.
Switzerland is considered a role model for so many things. Supporters of direct democracy, for example, would like it if the Austrian people could also be so decisive. What they don’t say is that the citizen should also be respected as a sovereign. Serious information policy included. The parties’ ability to influence would have to be radically reduced.
And a lot more subsidiarity would probably be necessary: among its neighbors, each canton forms a state within a state. Citizens see themselves as responsible people who soberly weigh up how much tax money is needed for what. Therefore, you can already speak out for increases. State emperors or state empresses like Stelzer or Mikl-Leitner do not exist and cannot exist under these circumstances.
And now to form a government: The fact that the two parties with the highest number of votes automatically form the government, as Pierer conveys, is nonsense. And you can’t ignore that if you know that he just sees the Federal President as an annoying role and wants turquoise and blue. If he just makes up some story and doesn’t give a damn about facts.
In Switzerland, the members of the government (or the Federal Council) elected by Parliament. Every citizen entitled to vote is eligible to vote. However, it should be noted that firstly all regions and secondly also the language communities are adequately represented by the members.
Up to this point there is not even any talk of parties. This is where it comes in: For the composition there is what is called the “magic formula” in German-speaking Switzerland and what is referred to as “magic formula” in Italian-speaking Switzerland „proportional formula“. The seven seats are allocated to several parties in a relatively fixed manner: two each to the People’s Party, the Social Democrats and the Liberals, and one to the Christian Democrats. In fact, this is a concentration government in which smaller parties, such as the Greens, are not taken into account. If applied to Austria it would at least be blue-turquoise-red. A three-party coalition.
Does Pierer want that? What FPÖ boss Herbert Kickl wouldn’t like at all is that the members of the Federal Council and government have equal rights. So something like a People’s Chancellor is impossible. Each member is Federal President for one year, but he or she is also First among equals. This goes so far that during state visits he or she “only” receives foreign guests on behalf of the entire Federal Council.
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