Strong Exchange of Hits in Parliament on Marterbauer's Budget
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der Standard DEMoved debate in the National Council: Kickl attacks "Marxist" finance ministers and "Losierampel", SPÖ and Neos attack the Greens
With an "enormous increase in budgets" since 2018, Marterbauer has resisted the "conscious panic mache" of the universities, which "payed completely incomprehensible fantasies salaries. There is a plus for the education sector, with the issue of laptops being postponed by one year. The women's record budget is due to the massive violence.
Finance Minister Markus Marterbauer pleads in his budget speech for a strong welfare state and wind turbines. Against ÖVP and the Greens he sharply distributes.
The rising public debt increases interest payments and thus reduces funds for education, health and safety in the budget.
The double budget presented today provides a powerful political stimulus. While the opposition from the Greens to the FPÖ strongly criticises the austerity measures and the lack of reforms, Chancellor Christian Stocker defends the draft as a "big throw". The Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Labour are also deeply divided.
“As we already saw yesterday in the parliamentary budget committee during the discussion of the Budget Measures Act, and as today’s remarks by SPÖ Finance Minister Marterbauer have confirmed once again, a very clear picture is emerging. This black-red-pink government is getting bogged down in minutiae, but isn’t solving a single structural problem, though that would be beyond its capabilities anyway,” explained FPÖ economic spokesperson MP Dr. B…
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