Closely related to this is Kickl’s criticism of the planned energy transition: it is “incredibly expensive” and it “doesn’t work”. “We can not save the climate,” said the FPÖ leader, one must end the “demonization” of fossil fuels. What is needed is a “policy of proportion and proportionality”. Besides, the climate has always been changing.
Kickl also expressly advocated using the possibilities for gas production by means of fracking in the Weinviertel instead of just relying on “renewables” one-sidedly.
If there is no “command back” in all these questions, “then it will be dark in Austria and Europe,” warned the FPÖ boss.
Despite the turbulence in the Jenewein affair, Kickl sees his own party as “stable” – for the party conference on September 17, when he has to face re-election, he expects a good result, which he did not want to quantify (in his first election In 2021 he received 88 percent).
The party leader stated that the political goal was to be “first to cross the finish line” in the next national elections – then the FPÖ would be tasked with forming a government. He is not worried about not finding a partner – Kickl says smugly, he has seen how “flexible” the ÖVP (most recently in 2017) but also the SPÖ could be.