A year after the registration week for the anti-corruption referendum, the initiators have criticized the fact that 60 percent of their demands have not yet been implemented.
This was reported by the Ö1 morning journal. At a discussion in Vienna together with Julian Hessenthaler, the maker of the “Ibiza video”, Martin Kreutner, the initiator of the referendum, renewed the demand for a Federal Archives Act: Cell phone communication by government members must be regulated in the Archives Act.
Kreutner also called for the passage of the Freedom of Information Act, an end to advertising corruption and an independent judiciary through the creation of a federal prosecutor’s office.
Hessenthaler asserted that his goal in Ibiza was also the fight against corruption. In two respects, the video was not quite as successful as he had hoped: no direct statements about corruption could be elicited from the then FPÖ Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache. And, according to Hessenthaler, the voters were “very little impressed” despite the “huge scandal”.
