Doskozil wants red-green-pink in the bunch

It would certainly be extremely difficult with the FPÖ, as it “is now,” so his preference would be “clearly” red-green-pink. “Austria has earned a new coalition,” he says in Sunday’s “Kurier”.

With a view to the health care reform, the current chairman of the LH conference is getting into the ring against the medical association. “The Medical Association only has so much power because we have given it so much power under federal law. Who says that the Medical Association needs this power. That needs to be eliminated,” says Doskozil – convinced that the health system “is completely new “must be thought”. The central question is how Austria can keep expensively trained doctors here. It would make sense, for example, to oblige medical students to stay in Austria for a certain period of time. The medical association is not needed, he said in view of the resistance to be expected, “the federal government must finally be ready to regulate it by law”.

The Burgenland governor shows restraint on the question of the SPÖ leadership. Of course, “the state of social democracy is currently not optimal, if you look at the poll results”. But in view of the state elections in Lower Austria, Carinthia and Salzburg, now is “not the time to discuss it publicly”. Doskozil does not expect the Lower Austria elections to have any “immediate” effects on the federal government, neither for the government nor for the SPÖ. “If so, then the situation will come to a head, but there will be no changes,” he says – also in view of the fact that the SPÖ in Lower Austria could be overtaken by the FPÖ.

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