Kickl Now Demands Zero Wage Round Also For States
This contrasts with the behaviour of some of his state parties, as the black-blue coalitions in Salzburg, Vorarlberg and Upper Austria have already announced that they want to make salary increases unlike at the federal level.
Kickl Will Submit a Motion in the Plenary
Kickl wants to prevent this, as he writes in a press release. He will submit a motion to this effect in tomorrow's plenary: "The vote on this will be the acid test for the other parties." The required zero wage round for all politicians is by no means a disregard for political mandates or offices, but rather to send a symbol with great impact in these times of economic crisis.
The NEOS also demand a zero wage round for state politics, which should contribute to budget consolidation. "The people in Austria must not have the feeling that taxpayers have to pay for the failure of politics first," emphasized the deputy club chairman Nikolaus Scherak in a statement to the APA. The NEOS do not want to agree to the increase in civil servant salaries by 3.5 percent. Scherak sees this as "issuing uncovered checks" and a "politics of 'business as usual', which we consider completely wrong."
(APA/Red)
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