The committee under the leadership of the former Styrian Governor Waltraut Klasnic “states that the choice of words and the lack of respect in some of the chats that have come to the public are completely inappropriate and to be rejected and contradicts the code of conduct, even if they are not publicly made statements “.
At the same time, the Ethics Council also states in its resolution before the APA that this was “made public without taking data protection and privacy into account.
“The Ethics Council takes note of the apology made for this,” says the statement. Kurz had recently said that he would no longer use certain phrases and that he “regretted” them. The Ethics Council expects “that such a tone will not only be omitted in the future, but that a respectful tone will also be used in private communication by officials”.
According to its own statements, the ethics council is currently unable to assess the facts currently under investigation by the public prosecutor. “In this regard, the presumption of innocence must also apply.” The Ethics Council wants to “closely monitor and accompany” further developments. The Ethics Council has not issued any further sanctions, which could theoretically go as far as exclusion from the party, aside from the aforementioned recommendation to refrain from such a tone of voice.
Meanwhile, on Friday, Erwin Zangerl, President of the Black Chamber of Labor, a sharp critic of the turquoise politics under Sebastian Kurz spoke up. He demanded a “complete processing” by the VP Ethics Council on a number of questions that were central to him. “Who was involved in the putsch within the VP? Who financed the” Project Ballhausplatz “and hoped for advantages from Kurz’s leap to the top of the state – and later claimed it? How great is the damage caused by the non-abolition of the cold progression and the lack of it widespread childcare for the employees? “, Zangerl wants to know in a broadcast. Ultimately, “those who caused the coup in the VP” had deeply shaken the voters’ confidence in politics. “In addition, the approach of this group has cost the workers billions,” said the Tyrolean AK boss.
The VP Ethics Council was set up in 2012 under the auspices of the then chairman Michael Spindelegger and chaired by Klasnic. It is the task of the Ethics Council to ensure compliance with the code of conduct that the VP has decided on for its politicians.
