For the Vienna City Councilor for Health Peter Hacker (SPÖ), it was a mistake that the SPÖ supported the now abolished vaccination requirement during the corona pandemic against their conviction. In the Ö1 interview, Hacker said on Saturday that compulsory vaccination was “not a highlight of Austria’s corona policy”.
The fact that the SPÖ and Mayor Michael Ludwig supported the obligation to vaccinate was due to the national consensus. The SPÖ did not like this measure, but supported it out of solidarity. “That may have been a mistake,” Hacker admitted.
The core problem was the politicization of the entire package of measures. Hacker said that Vienna’s special path in the pandemic was “never our intention” to pass it off as “the red trademark”.
Accessed on 02/18/2023 at 09:59