Austrian opposition parties and environmental groups on Friday criticized a new ...
VIENNA - Austrian opposition parties and environmental groups on Friday criticized a new coalition deal between conservatives and the Greens as heavy on the center-right party’s law-and-order agenda while delaying urgently needed action on climate change.
The awkward alliance between ideological adversaries is being watched closely in Europe, particularly in Germany where similar voting patterns might make it a potential model for Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats after she retires.“It is not the best of both worlds,” the leader of the Social Democrats, Pamela Rendi-Wagner, told a news conference about the deal between Kurz’s People’s Party and the Greens. “It is far more an OVP manifesto with Green camouflage.
“It is painful for us that we could not prevail with what we would like to see here,” Greens negotiator Sigi Maurer told news channel Puls 24 in a discussion with OVP negotiator August Woeginger, adding that the Greens were still “the party of human rights”.
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