Grin Dr. Jennifer Kickert (Greens) spoke up for a formal reason: Kickert withdrew an application from the Greens and brought in his place a three-party application from SPÖ, NEOS and GREEN on the subject of “improving homeless help for LGBTIQ+persons in Vienna”. Kickert also thanked the affected working group for the preparatory work for the preparatory work.
Vote: The contract approval was unanimously accepted. The three-party application by SPÖ, NEOS and GREEN was accepted in a multi-part. Two further proposals from the opposition found no necessary majority.
Promotion to the Association of the Vienna Association of Parents’ Associations on mandatory public educational institutions
Grin Mag. Mag. Julia Malle (Greens) describes the support for the parent associations as a major concern, but the act in question is formulated in a transparent, its own events of the state association are obviously not intended and an website cannot be found. Therefore, it will not agree to the funding.
Vote: The funding was accepted in a multi -part. An application from the ÖVP did not find a necessary majority.
Design of a decision with which the decision of the Vienna municipal council on the rules of procedure of the district representatives is changed, changes to the rules of procedure for the committees, subcommittees and commissions as well as the rules of procedure of the municipal council of the city of Vienna
GR MAG. Dietbert Kowarik (FPÖ) said that on the “last trigger” in the ongoing legislative period to change the common rules for the local council is not okay. The impression is imposed on him “that attempts are made to fill your own government monitor with green hakerln”. For example, the speaking time for MPs is “massively restricted”, criticized Kowarik. The NEOS in the city government would have asked that the lime was restricted, suspected Kowarik, who described the overall record of the NEOS as “rather poor” in this legislative period. When it comes to the rules of procedure of the district representatives, Kowarik did not expect that in future written inquiries to the district executive had to be brought in three days before the meeting. In the future, such inquiries would have to be answered either orally at the session or in writing within two months. A debate on the written answer was no longer possible in a district council meeting, Kowarik criticized. In the rules of procedure of the municipal council, it is now stipulated that the speaking time for justification for a focus debate is restricted in a municipal council meeting from 40 to 20 minutes. The application of the “Vienna Hour” for all debates will limit about the spoken time of non -factioned MPs to ten minutes. “I wonder what the drive of the Neos was to restrict our rights,” Kowarik asked the question in the room. For Kowarik, the motivation of this change in the provisions is not understandable; He would not agree to these changes.
Gr Mag. (FH) Jörg Konrad (Neos) was happy that at the end of the legislative period, projects from the transparency chapter of the coalition agreement would be decided. The planned changes to the rules of procedure for the local council concern the current hour or meetings on request. The changes to the rules of procedure in the districts are “long overdue,” said Konrad. “Because if you wanted to find out what is going on in the districts, you have been able to find out very much in digital way.
GR David Ellensohn (Greens) said that the change in the rules of procedure in the districts “was not presented for debate at all”. The fact that the rules of the game for everyone are decided exclusively in front of the government without opposition, “that doesn’t work”. This did not exist in this house in his time: “The shortage of speaking time is an invention of Pink, all other parties have not decided in the past.” The government monitor is obviously “an obsession in Pink – they seem to make them happy as many green Hakerl as possible,” said Ellensohn towards Neos. Finally, Ellensohn found words of praise for the activity of his back speaker GR Markus Wölbitsch, Mim (ÖVP), who will no longer be represented in the upcoming legislative period in the local council.
GR Dr. Markus Wölbitsch, Mim (ÖVP) said that the balance between the government and opposition had not been found in the planned changes, no suggestions from the opposition would be found in the change in the rules of procedure. Therefore, he could not agree to these changes. Wölbitsch still critically commented on the planned reform of the investigation commission, which is to be debated on Thursday in the state parliament. Wölbitsch thanked everyone in the house in his last speech in the local council. “Democracy is still the best system, because it also enables individual changes to the political system. I have experienced this here,” said Wölbitsch appreciatively. One has to recognize that there are many truths in life, the challenge of politics is to bring these different opinions together and thus come as close as possible to the truth. Many people in this house would advance the democratic process through their nature and work, such as Dietbert Kowarik (FPÖ) with his objectivity or Thomas Weber (Neos), who reflects for his concerns, or Georg Prack (Greens) with his know-how on the subject of living. One of his findings from recent years is that politics is not a “game”, but the representation of the personal concerns of people. At the end of his speech, Wölbitsch thanked the state parliament president Ernst Woller and chairman of the town council Thomas Reindl (both SPÖ), with his employees as well as the club chairwoman and club men of the other factions. (Continued) Nic