FPÖ - Hafenecker: "Commissioning of the extremely left-leaning private club DÖW is a black-green farce!" Liberal Parliament Club

2023-08-03 14:53:04

In truth, the ÖVP and the Greens want to frame and thus delegitimize undesirable patriotic, conservative opinions as extreme

Vienna (OTS) – “The mere reintroduction of an additional right-wing extremism report, although the constitutional protection report contains one anyway, is a politically arbitrary farce by the ÖVP and the Greens, which is underlined once again by the DÖW being commissioned to compile it. Because this extremely left-leaning private association already denounces almost everyone who is not explicitly left-leaning as a ‘right-wing extremist’ and therefore acts primarily as a political actor who may now also be given access to sensitive files about citizens. Here the buck is turned into a gardener, ”exercised today FPÖ Secretary General NAbg. Christian Hafenecker, MA sharp criticism of the official assignment of the preparation of an annual right-wing extremism report to the “Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW)” by the ÖVP-led Ministry of the Interior.

The ÖVP and the Greens are obviously concerned with delegitimizing unwelcome opinions and allowing the DÖW to put a supposedly “scientific stamp” on them: “Patriotic, conservative opinions that are critical of the dominant left-wing narratives, such as those expressed in the population, especially on socio-political issues predominantly prevail, should be framed as ‘extreme’ and thus pushed out of the public discourse – that is the tactical calculation of the ÖVP and the ideological goal of the Greens. The fact that all of this is being carried out by an interior minister from the conservative People’s Party, which was once a Christian Democratic party, is not normal and only shows the ÖVP’s total decline in values in favor of simply staying in power!”

Every form of extremism should be condemned in the strongest possible terms, the same applies to Islamist extremism and left-wing extremism. “Especially in view of the danger posed by Islamism, which cost the lives of four people and injured numerous people only around two and a half years ago in the terrorist attack in Vienna, the priorities set by this Federal Government and the Minister of the Interior are completely wrong. Not a word was heard from these gentlemen about left-wing extremist violence against peaceful participants in the demonstration last Saturday in the federal capital. This is revealing and only shows that it is less about fighting real extremism and more about criminalizing unwelcome opinions. In any case, we Liberals will keep a watchful eye on it, because this federal government has already trampled on the fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens,” announced Hafenecker.