“Whether an annual card, parkpickerl or local tax-the recent decisions of the red-pink city government show clearly: Instead of saving yourself, SPÖ and NEOS prefer to turn the fees and load screws vigorously. So far, the SPÖ-NOS city government has remained owe to answers where it wants to save in the system,” criticizes the Gf. of today’s press conference.
City Councilor Novak will have to answer questions in the context of an urgent request, such as how the specific plans of the SPÖ-NEOS city government regarding the expenditure-sided savings will look, whether there will be further increases in fees, which grants evaluated and which major projects are covered. But also how the districts with the shortened budgets should continue to perform their tasks. “The red-pink city government speaks a lot of consolidation, but is currently guilty of every concrete answer. The Viennese are already feeling the consequences: more expensive publications, more expensive parking, but no improvement in performance,” criticizes FIGL.
“This is not a future plan, this is a wave of stress at the expense of people in this city, who are rightly wondering why they have to pay for mismanagement in the town hall,” emphasizes Figl. Instead, the tourism zones that could bring economic impulses and the urgently needed structural reforms in the minimum security are further blocked.
In addition, the districts were now presented with accomplished facts and announced that their budgets are shortened. “The districts must not be asked to pay for it because the city government cannot do so. It is the districts in particular that are present for the Viennese in everyday life and, with their proximity, ensure the direct line to the people,” said the country party chairman and district manager of the inner city. He calls for a withdrawal of this measure by the City Councilor and the admission of negotiations with the districts at eye level.
Urgent request to Strin Novak must finally deliver concrete numbers
“It is not enough to always open up new sources of income and to constantly increase the existing ones to the dismay of the Viennese. The city government must finally save in their own system. Anyone who shortens the people in the districts, endangering investments in schools or for children, increases their fees and at the same time leaves their own structures untouched: Here, every will to reform is missing,” criticizes the Viennese People’s Party, criticizes the Vienna People’s Party here, “criticizes Harald Zierfuß.
Therefore, the Vienna People’s Party decided to bring in an urgent request to the Vienna City Councilor in the next municipal council meeting on September 24, 2025. “The Viennese have the right to find out whether there will be real savings in this city. Because the budget of the city of Vienna has come into a massive imbalance in recent years. In 2024, net new debt at 1.77 billion euros has reached a historical high-the numbers have exploded under the red-pink city government,” exploded Ornamental foot.
It is time for the city government to put the cards on the table. “The Viennese have the right to find out where it is really saved. Is there even the courage to modernize their own structures? Or should people only pay more and more, while in the red town hall everything remains, what it is like?