"'ÖVP Had Their Chance': SPÖ Wants to Take Over the Ministry of Finance"

The ÖVP must hand over the department to the SPÖ in a new government, demanded the acting state party chairman Alois Stöger in view of the budget gap, which he blames on the ÖVP and which endangers social welfare. "The restoration of a solid financial basis is essential - without social clear-cutting. The ÖVP had their chance," said Stöger.

SPÖ Upper Austria Claims Ministry of Finance for Social Democrats

"Anyone who wants to govern differently and better must first take responsibility for the mistakes of their previous politics," said Stöger. "This means that the ÖVP must admit that their course in budget policy has failed." The Ministry of Finance should therefore no longer be led by the People's Party in the future.

But Stöger not only demands from the federal government, but also from the Upper Austrian finance referent Governor Thomas Stelzer (ÖVP) a "better financial policy". Because: "In Upper Austria alone, 138 out of 438 municipalities currently cannot balance their budgets. They are under state curatorship. This has massive implications for social welfare". Measures to relieve social associations and municipalities are urgently needed. The black-blue state budget passed last week does not offer any solutions here, says Stöger.

(APA/Red)

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