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Carl Nehammer, the current Minister of the Interior, will probably be the new Chancellor of Austria, after the resignation of Alexander Salenberg yesterday.
The presidency of the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) unanimously elected the party leader Nehamer a few hours ago, automatically proposing him as the new chancellor.
“The PVP is a party that works towards the future, without forgetting the foundation of its values,” Nehamer said after his election, expressing his respect for former party and parliamentary group leader Sebastian Kurtz. , who announced yesterday that he is leaving politics. Answering a relevant question, Mr. Nehamer said that the Chancellery was not his target, but today he feels joy, gratitude and respect and put the pandemic and immigration as his main priorities. As interior minister, he had a very strict line on illegal immigration and Islamist currents.
He was appointed interior minister by Chancellor Sebastian Kurtz early last year and this was the first government post he has ever held.
Carl Nehamer, 49, is a former military and communications consultant who rose through the party hierarchy to become president of the OVP today. He loves the military dialect and wished “Soldatenglueck!” (good luck soldiers) to the forces deployed last year on the Austrian border.
As Home Secretary, he was key to implementing the key points of Kurtz’s policy: a tough line on immigration policy, strengthening border controls and a commitment to avoid a repeat of the 2015-2016 migration crisis for Europe, when Austria welcomed asylum seekers representing more than 1% of its population.
He has survived at least one major scandal as a minister. A serious flaw in the intelligence system, for which Interior Ministry officials under his command were responsible, prevented the Austrian authorities from dealing with a convicted jihadist who was known to have tried to buy ammunition for an automatic weapon. The jihadist killed four people last year in a terrorist attack in central Vienna before being killed by police.
While acknowledging that unacceptable mistakes were made in the management of information about the jihadist, he blamed the situation on the Interior Ministry, which he led to Herbert Kikl’s far-right predecessor, although Kikl had been in the Interior Ministry for less than two years. years before that the ministry was under the control of the Nehamer Conservatives for 17 years.
With the change in the leadership of the PVP and the imminent change in the leadership of the center-right coalition government – Greens, there was a reshuffle of the members of the People’s Party in the government. Alexander Salenberg, who became Chancellor in October following the departure of Sebastian Kurtz amid a political scandal, returned to the Foreign Ministry, while Magnus Bruner took over the Finance Ministry and Gerhard Carner took over the Interior Ministry.
The People’s Party, which last September was ahead of the Social Democrats (SPÖ) by at least 10 points, is in the throes of a referendum following the scandal over Sebastian Kurtz’s resignation. From 34% in September, it is now at 23%, behind the SPÖ, which secures 26%. They are followed by the far right FPÖ with 21%, the liberal Neos and the Greens with 12%. With these percentages, a government of SPÖ, Greens, Neos would be possible, without the participation of the People’s Party.
Source: AMPE
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