Following the parliamentary part, there will be a military ceremony for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces with a flag parade and a commemoration of the dead at Heldenplatz. The celebrations will continue with a reception from Van der Bellen’s home state of Tyrol.
ORF-Interview
Clearly at a distance from the FPÖ boss Herbert Kickl goes Federal President Alexander Van the Bells Wednesday and evening in one ORF-Interview. If Kickl wins the election, he cannot be sure that he will automatically be given the task of forming a government. Van the Bells criticized the attitude the FPÖ on the EU and the Russian war and recalls the raid on the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
“I will not try to promote an anti-European party, a party that does not condemn Russia’s war against Ukraine, through my measures,” he said Van the Bells in an ORF interview on Wednesday. He not only takes the oath of office to the constitution, but is also committed to his conscience.
The question of whether that means that he Kickl, even if the FPÖ the National Council election First will, not automatically with the would commission the formation of a government was enough the Federal President continued – with the words that one should ask Kickl and not him, “whether it was right to carry out a raid against his own house, against the Ministry of the Interior, which led to nothing except that the foreign intelligence services had no confidence in lost Austria and and and ….”
And Van der Bellen goes on to say: “Strictly speaking, one has to make a distinction: the government’s mandate is not in the constitution. The constitution does state that I appoint the chancellor. And that is my very personal decision. I don’t need a proposal for that, … that’s one of the very, very few points where the Federal President is completely free in his decision.”