“I’m doing it on the Oasch,” Neos faction leader Krisper had said into the microphone, which was accidentally still activated – but denied that she meant Ilse Huber. The latter nevertheless referred to the statement.
Of the Ibiza U Committee loses his trial judge: Ilse Huber resigns. The background, as announced on Friday by the parliamentary directorate: Huber had been criticized several times by the opposition for its work in the committee of inquiry – for example for its interpretation of the right to refuse. The barrel has overflowed, a statement by Neos mandate Stephanie Krisper, which Huber referred to.
“Unfortunately, in the course of the meetings, I had to experience that objective and personal attacks took place here, which also included me,” said Huber in a written statement. At the yesterday’s trial day was “crossed a border” for them. “The highly derogatory utterance of a faction leader and the ensuing public discourse are unprecedented for me. I have never experienced anything like this in my decades as a judge and I would never have expected anything like it,” said Huber, who before her retirement Vice President of the Supreme Court was disappointed.
“I’m doing it on the Oasch,” Krisper said in the course of a debate surrounding the questioning of Finance Minister Gernot Blümel (ÖVP) on Thursday into the microphone, which was still activated by mistake. Afterwards, she denied that she meant the judge, rather it was a plural and she was annoyed by the circumstances, from Blümel’s gaps in memory and debates on the rules of procedure to the chairmanship of National Council President Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP)
“Because of this occurrence, I decided to resign as a judge,” said Huber. Sobotka informed her Friday morning of her step, for which you ask for your understanding. She took on the role of trial judge because it was important to her “to bring my experience as a judge to the Republic and in the interests of our democracy as a trial judge in a committee of inquiry,” said Huber.
Interim judge Wolfgang Pöschl, former vice president of the Vienna Higher Regional Court, is now taking over. The decision of who will be appointed as the new trial judge is made by the presidium.
ÖVP parliamentary group leader sees “rock bottom”
ÖVP parliamentary group leader Wolfgang Gerstl expressed sharp criticism of the opposition. “It cannot go on like this now, thanks to Neos and Co. we have already bottomed out,” he said after Huber’s resignation. The opposition’s behavior towards the judge was “intolerable, inhuman and unworthy”. In this context he spoke of bullying. The resigned trial judge had said to him, “A murderer has more respect in a court hearing” than the parties have shown to an informant on the U-committee.
People in the U-Committee are regularly “disparaged”, the opposition is only concerned with “partisan change”. Gerstl is now calling for a parliamentary group leader meeting “to protect the U-Committee as a serious control instrument from the completely out of control opposition”.
Gerstl wiped the opposition’s recent accusations against committee chairman Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP) off the table at a short-term press conference – and rather called for “respect” for the office. SPÖ, FPÖ and NEOS had again on Friday Sobotka’s resignation is demanded, because the public prosecutor is investigating the “Alois Mock Institute” association, whose president is Sobotka.
Neos: “Completely upset”
After the “bullying” allegation, however, the Neos also demanded more respect: “The ÖVP should immediately stop the hate campaign against Stephanie Krisper,” said Helmut Brandstätter on Friday afternoon. “The constant attacks against Stephanie Krisper” – it had already been targeted by the ÖVP – would only show “how well she is doing in her intrepid educational work,” said Brandstätter. Krisper had not insulted anyone personally, but was “completely upset about the conditions in the committee of inquiry”.
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