Knife stabbing, youth crime, a lack of knowledge of German in schools, an empty state cassaine and an record deficit – Mayor Michael Ludwig’s balance sheet is devastating and yet the SPÖ celebrates a significant election success in Vienna last Sunday. It clearly lands in space, the FPÖ follows in second place with 20.4%, and the other parties cannot make a political profit despite the many construction sites in the metropolis.
Change of perspective goes on a search for traces: Is it all in the best order in Vienna? Are the problems of the media blown up? No, counterattack critics: The SPÖ has been providing its followers with benefits of all kinds for decades and thus securing its voices.
Herbert Kickl, FPÖ federal party chairman
“This SPÖ, which has been art, has an incredible structural power, it has an incredible number of opportunities to make people dependent, directly and indirectly. It starts with the apartment, goes over the old people’s home. It has to do with certain subsidies to do this system.”
This also confirms Franz Schellhorn, director of the Agenda Menuhe speaks of a system of benefits in Red Vienna.
Franz Schellhorn, director of the Agenda Menu
“This is a system of benefits. The city of Vienna offers its own universe. The city of Vienna is the largest employer in the city with almost 70,000 people. The city is the largest landlord of apartments. About 500,000 people live in apartments in the city of Vienna. And the city also offers a large leisure program. And then the interests for the common good with the party dresses up to recognition.”
47 percent of people who live in the community building gave their voice of the SPÖ on Sunday. Change of view speaks to voters in Vienna’s most famous community building, the Karl-Marx-Hof. They confirm the thesis: “Migration is a disaster, you are strange in your own country, but I owe the SPÖ apartment,” it says. Or: “The community building is red, you can do what you want”.
SPÖ veteran Josef Cap defends the strategy of SPÖ boss Michael Ludwig:
“Why shouldn’t you like someone who is politically for living, why shouldn’t you choose it? Should you prefer to choose someone who chases me out of the apartment, where it is no longer safe and where I can no longer afford it? This is just absurd.”
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