On March 12th at 9:05 p.m. on ORF 2; Guests in the studio: election researcher Katrin Praprotnik and finance procuratorate boss Wolfgang Peschorn
Vienna (OTS) – Susanne Schnabl will present the “Report” on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, at 9:05 p.m. on ORF 2 with the following topics:
Red or dark red?
In the city of Salzburg there is a runoff election between the SPÖ and KPÖ+ candidates. Mobilization will be crucial, because although voter turnout has increased slightly, it is still very low at 54 percent. Five years ago, less than half of those eligible to vote cast their vote, making Salzburg the city of non-voters. According to studies, many non-voters are from the lower third of income and they no longer feel represented by politics. Helga Lazar and Miriam Ressi report on how the parties could win this large group back.
Election researcher Katrin Praprotnik from the University of Graz is live in the studio.
Finding the truth or election campaign?
The starting signal has been given for two investigative committees. In the next two months, the MPs will investigate, on the one hand, the Corona aid under the ÖVP-Green government and, on the other hand, a “red-blue abuse of power”. The two U-committees fall in the super election year; the EU Parliament will be elected at the beginning of June and the National Council will probably be elected in the fall. In many places there is criticism that the parties are using the control instrument as another campaign stage. Mud fights are inevitable. Politicians contradict this: there is no bad time to find out the truth, we will clarify things objectively. But what does it actually look like in reality? And what role do the current developments surrounding René Benko play? A report by Stefan Daubrawa and Jürgen Klatzer.
The live guest is Wolfgang Peschorn, Head of the Financial Procuratorate.
What are our values?
The return of the dominant culture: As early as 1996, the political scientist Bassam Tibi, who comes from Syria and lives in Germany, identified a crisis in multicultural society and called for a “European dominant culture”. A term that has recently been brought up again in Austria by the Chancellor’s Party ÖVP or the NEOS: Karl Nehammer explained in his speech in Wels that there are clear rules of the game and that “integration is adaptation”; NEOS boss Beate Meinl-Reisinger demanded that citizenship must be linked even more to a commitment to the fundamental rights enshrined in the constitution. Against the background of the dominant culture debate, acts of violence against women by men with an immigrant background are now also causing discussions. What is the Austrian dominant culture, what are our values? And given the current integration debate, what about patriarchal structures in the country? An analysis by Laura Franz and Julia Ortner.