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The government is involved or even appoints the Federal Chancellor is a scenario that Health and Social Affairs Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) believes must be averted. It’s about the state as a whole, he told the APA, he cares “about democracy and about this country.” Even “supposedly incompatible former major parties such as the ÖVP and the SPÖ” would have to regain their ability to engage in dialogue.
“I am convinced that there has to be a constellation, and I am not speaking for my own party, that makes it possible to form a government in which the FPÖ is not represented,” said Rauch: “My concern is “If the FPÖ is possibly the strongest party and becomes the Federal Chancellor and is represented in a federal government, then this country will be rebuilt in a way that we will not recognize it.” This applies not only to Austria, but also to Europe, should the “right-wing national, right-wing extremist, right-wing populist parties” trigger a boost and overturn the EU Commission.
“Don’t want conditions like in the USA”
“And I don’t want a situation like in the USA, where a fundamentalist, radicalized right is plunging the country into chaos, even to the point of overthrowing parliaments,” the minister continued: “Parliamentary democracy, the European Union, has many shortcomings, yes, But without them we lose everything: freedom, prosperity, cohesion, sustainability.”
He himself no longer aspires to a government position: “I have always said and it was also clear that I will be 65 next year and that my political career will end with the end of this government.” Nevertheless, he will continue to be politically active. His warning: “The ice of democracy, human rights and the liberal constitutional state is thinner than we believe.”
The FPÖ finds Rauch’s appeal for a federal government without them “not surprising,” as health spokesman Gerhard Kaniak announced in a broadcast. A “FPÖ-led federal government with a People’s Chancellor Herbert Kickl” would ensure a “necessary political change,” said Kaniak, with reference to health policy, where he sees a government failure due to the shortage of doctors, the nursing crisis and the medication shortages.
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