Such a measure for health professionals is not only conceivable, but “possibly also useful,” he said in the “Puls4 / 24” summer talk on Monday. He was more skeptical about the teaching staff. “Basically, I am an opponent of vaccination requirements across large groups,” said Kogler.
Kogler argued that looking at new people to be employed in the health sector is important because these workers have contact with population groups that are already weakened. This is more difficult with teachers, since then the question inevitably arises as to what one can do with comparable other groups, such as kindergarten staff. Teachers would rightly say: “Why just us?”
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Backing for Gewessler
In the current coalition dispute over road construction projects that had been stopped for the time being, Kogler defended the actions of his party colleague, Transport Minister Leonore Gewessler. The outcome of the re-evaluations is open, and in many areas there are faster, cheaper and more environmentally friendly options. In the direction of the Stone Age, as Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) had claimed, it does not go with it. “These formulations remind me exactly of this old way of thinking, and that’s where they come from,” repeated Kogler.
Nor does Kogler share 100 percent of the reaction to the killing of a 13-year-old by Afghan refugees with his coalition partner. Instead of increasing the number of deportations to Afghanistan, as Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) had announced, the Green leader would rather use the instruments that already exist. A faster procedure is required in the case of deportations, because: “You can accelerate everywhere.”
In general, Kogler defended his party’s role in the coalition with the ÖVP, even in areas where they had not fully asserted themselves. Overall, the balance sheet is “very good,” according to the judiciary, for example. But it is also clear that “it doesn’t work everywhere”. In combating the pandemic and cushioning the economic crisis, “we have succeeded a lot more than we were expected to”. The image of a prohibition party only spun by the political opponent, “I think it is fundamentally wrong”.
