“That applies forever. I rule out a return permanently,” he said in a newspaper interview on Sunday. And assured that he would “continue to support the People’s Party as a voter”.
He is going to the Graz party conference – at which Karl Nehammer will be elected ÖVP leader next weekend – “to support him and the new team,” Kurz countered speculation that this was the start of his comeback. He doesn’t give the new party leader and chancellor, with whom he has a “friendly relationship,” any advice. He thinks like Wolfgang Bowl – “It doesn’t need any shouts from the Muppet balcony.”
No apologies to Mitterlehner
Kurz’s relationship with his predecessor Reinhold Mitterlehner is anything but friendly – whom he described as “ass” in a chat with Thomas Schmid. Apparently he doesn’t think of an apology: “I don’t think we owe each other much,” in the party there are “just one or the other with whom I wouldn’t go for a coffee privately,” is his answer to this question.
Regarding the investigations against him and other (ex-)ÖVP politicians, Kurz assures once again that he has “never been guilty of anything” under criminal law and is convinced that he can ultimately prove “that all these allegations are false”.
In the interview, Kurz also describes a little of his new life. He works for Thiel Capital in the USA, “founded a company and started making my own investments last month.” He currently lives with his girlfriend Susanne and their five-month-old son Konstantin in Vienna-Meidling – but maybe they will move in the next few months, “at the moment there is still a lot going on”. He travels a lot, especially in the Middle East and the USA, now also with his family.
Source: Nachrichten
