Top candidate Joachim Aigner announced on the evening of the election that although the state parliament would “primarily take care of corona measures”, the party also had approaches in the areas of education, children, youth and family, health and social issues and small businesses. Above all, the party wants to depoliticize areas of life and focus on people, as it emphasizes.
In the field of economics, this applies, for example, to the Chamber of Commerce, which is no longer a real representative for entrepreneurs from SMEs and EPUs, but they make up “90 percent of the Austrian economy”. They were left alone in the crisis, which is why MFG no longer wants support such as short-time work for large corporations.
There is no program specially tailored to Upper Austria; rather, there are federal issues that dominate. For example, when it comes to “independence of the public prosecutor’s office from politics” in the area of justice and the “abolition of the right to issue instructions and the obligation to report”. Furthermore, the MFG wants a change in criminal law by lifting the statute of limitations for violent and, above all, sexual offenses against minors.
According to its own statements, the party wants to completely change the education system. The reason is the poor performance in the PISA studies. New subjects are therefore needed that are “important for life”. Apart from compulsory ethics classes and religious education on a voluntary basis, the party program does not contain any more. Even if they demand the “immediate opening of schools and kindergartens”, which is currently the case, the topic of school cancellations is present on their social media.
