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Voting in the EU elections begins Thursday and ends on SundayReinhold Lopatka, lead candidate for the Austrian People’s party in the European election, told the Guardian that the issues of illegal migration, inflation and the war in Ukraine are dominating the campaign.In a phone interview, Lopatka said that climate change has gotten less attention this time around. “It is still on the agenda, but it’s not topic number one, not number two, not number three – it is maybe number four or five.”The problem is that you have, each week, criminal cases like the stabbing of this policeman in Mannheim – and Austria is always in the media coverage very close to Germany.If something is in Germany, it always reaches Austria. So all this with AfD, this far-right wing party, and all these discussions of remigration and all this, one or two days later we have the same discussion here in Vienna.”This is the way how we try to keep voters on our side. Say, ‘yes, we have a problem. It’s a big problem, but we are working for a solution.’And it is always my saying, the far-right wing parties, they don’t want the solution. They live from the problem. They get their support through the problem, so they are not interested in solving the problem. This is the big difference. Continue reading...
Voting in the EU elections begins Thursday and ends on Sunday
Reinhold Lopatka, lead candidate for the Austrian People’s party in the European election, told the Guardian that the issues of illegal migration, inflation and the war in Ukraine are dominating the campaign.
In a phone interview, Lopatka said that climate change has gotten less attention this time around. “It is still on the agenda, but it’s not topic number one, not number two, not number three – it is maybe number four or five.”
The problem is that you have, each week, criminal cases like the stabbing of this policeman in Mannheim – and Austria is always in the media coverage very close to Germany.
If something is in Germany, it always reaches Austria. So all this with AfD, this far-right wing party, and all these discussions of remigration and all this, one or two days later we have the same discussion here in Vienna.”
This is the way how we try to keep voters on our side. Say, ‘yes, we have a problem. It’s a big problem, but we are working for a solution.’
And it is always my saying, the far-right wing parties, they don’t want the solution. They live from the problem. They get their support through the problem, so they are not interested in solving the problem. This is the big difference. Continue reading...
