With a little delay, ÖVP politicians gradually admit mistakes: In addition to the apologies from Federal Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg (ÖVP) for poor management of the corona pandemic, the two ÖVP governors Thomas Stelzer and Hermann Schützenhöfer have now admitted mistakes. The Upper Austrian regional chief admitted that one should have acted earlier and his Styrian colleague spoke of a “pathetic” picture.
Stelzer refuses to resign
In the Ö1 “Journal zu Gast”, Stelzer said on Saturday that “sure” mistakes had happened and that he should look for mistakes for them in order to be able to do better. “Probably one or the other should have happened earlier,” admitted the Upper Austrian governor. However, he pointed out that decisions often have to be made very quickly. Stelzer declined to resign – he took his responsibility fully.
Schützenhöfer: “The picture was pathetic for us”
His Styrian colleague also emphasized that you naturally make mistakes in such a health crisis and that he too “made mistakes and you have to apologize for them. Even if you did not consciously commit these mistakes,” said Schützenhöfer in the “Kleine Zeitung” “and admitted:” The picture we all submitted after last Sunday was pathetic for us. I don’t want to blame anyone and I don’t exclude myself either. ” One was aware of this in the run-up to the governor’s conference and was therefore trying to “go a way that shows the people: They mean business, we have to subordinate everything else for a while”.
SPÖ: “Schallenberg has pushed off guilt”
SPÖ health spokesman Philip Kucher accused Schallenberg meanwhile of “having turned his alleged apology in truth into an attack” because he had apologized to the vaccinated and criticized the unvaccinated. “Schallenberg has shifted the blame on those who lost their bearings in the corona crisis because of the zigzag course of the federal government. The ÖVP chancellor pours fuel on the fire, provokes an already tense situation and surrenders in the face of the State responsibility “, stated Kucher in a broadcast.
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