Lower Austria State Parliament Elections: Report Following Dumpling Posts on Facebook

According to media reports, the issue revolves around posts about egg dumplings on Facebook - on April 20, Adolf Hitler's birthday. Gudrun Bischof from the Korneuburg public prosecutor's office said on Wednesday upon request that there is a procedure that is directed "against unknown".

According to the spokeswoman for the authority, a statement of facts had been received at the end of December. Investigations had been commissioned. The procedure has been running since the beginning of January. "Standard" and "Ö1" morning journal reported that the statement of facts had been submitted by the former Green MP Karl Öllinger, founder of the platform "Stop the Right".

"Today we have vegetarian - egg dumplings and green salad."

"Today we have vegetarian - egg dumplings and green salad.", was posted on April 20, 2024, but also twice before by the Freedom Party, the "NÖN" reported online on Tuesday. The dish is considered Hitler's favourite food. In addition to the FPÖ's top candidate in the district town, her husband, who is also running, and two other FPÖ candidates, from Gänserndorf and Deutsch-Wagram (Gänserndorf district), are said to have been reported for violating the Prohibition Act. They are said to have liked the post.

"I am not familiar with the statement of facts, but I assume that the authorities can clarify this," FPÖ district party leader and member of the state parliament Dieter Dorner was quoted by the "NÖN". "It does not surprise us that a paper is played to the media a few days before the municipal council election to create a mood against the FPÖ. This method already has a system."

FPÖ NÖ refers to egg dumpling post by SPÖ deputy mayor

"Racist and inhumane statements within the ranks of the FPÖ" are systematic, responded SPÖ Federal Manager Klaus Seltenheim in a press release. ÖVP Chairman (Christian, note) Stocker "must take a stand and cannot continue to pretend as if the FPÖ were a viable state", he also demanded. The FPÖ Lower Austria, however, pointed to an egg dumpling post by an SPÖ deputy mayor from April 20, 2018 ("No harm meant", accompanied by a winking smiley).

As a Facebook post proves, the SPÖ is currently stumbling over the egg dumpling entry of its deputy mayor from Herzogenburg (St. Pölten-Land district), who is also running second on the SPÖ list this time, emphasized FPÖ State Party Secretary Alexander Murlasits in a press release. He asked how the Social Democrats would explain this post and followed up: "Does the SPÖ have a right-wing extremism problem?" If the party "applies its own standards to itself, then the red deputy mayor should be immediately excluded and explain his alleged codes that he sends into the world".

"Let's keep the church in the village and return to democratic normality and reason", Murlasits called. There are still four days until the municipal elections "and nerves are on edge". The fear of a successful election for the Freedom Party is great.

"Unlike Freedom Party candidates, who even refer to April 20 in their posts as an 'honour day', the sentence in my 2018 post 'No harm meant' clearly indicates that I do not approve of this menu on this date", responded Herzogenburg's SPÖ deputy mayor on Wednesday in a statement sent to the APA. He is a "convinced anti-fascist", it is important to him "to expose such Nazi codes". The local politician hopes "that egg dumplings and green salad will no longer be on the daily menu anywhere on April 20", a public debate on the subject is welcomed.

In connection with the case, the Greens demanded consequences. "Anything other than an immediate resignation or expulsion from the party is not acceptable", stated extremism speaker Lukas Hammer in a press release. "No brushing against National Socialist ideology should remain without consequences."

(APA/Red)

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