“If you don’t even know the first name of Chancellor Leopold Figl, you should leave foreign policy to the professionals”

“Anyone who plays as a great patriot but does not even know the first name of Leopold Figl should leave foreign policy to the professionals. In view of his obvious knowledge gaps, Herbert Kickl should spend less time with anger and more with history lessons. In his current broadcast, FPÖ chairman Herbert Kickl lined up significant Chancellor – and quickly invented ‘Josef Figl’. This is characteristic of a party that likes to be a keeper of Austrian values, but in truth does not even have the basics of our recent history under control, ”the general secretary of the People’s Party, Nico Marchetti, reacts to the current broadcast of the FPÖ boss Herbert Kickl.

“As Federal Chancellor and Foreign Minister, Figl has neglected Austria’s independence and enables neutrality – values ​​that Kickl and his party are happy to interpret or ignore when it serves its agenda. Perhaps it would be advisable for Mr. Kickl to first learn the names of the architects of our country before reinterpreting their achievements for his own goals. If Chancellor Figl Herbert Kickl and his FPÖ could see, he would turn away disgusted. Because for him the freedom of Austria always came first. He would never accept the captures of his good reputation from Kickl and the FPÖ, ”concluded Marchetti.