FPÖ Federal President Herbert Kickl once again used the traditional freedom rally on May 1st in the beer tent at the Urfahranermarkt in Linz to claim Chancellor: “2030 is none of your business anymore, there is another Chancellor and he knows what to do has,” he told the black-green federal government.
None of the other parties and not even Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen will be able to stop the FPÖ, said Kickl in front of around 5,000 visitors, who often sang “Herbert” choruses.
“There’s something big in the air”
“Neutral. Secure. Free – Our Austria” was emblazoned on a poster on the stage where the John Otti Band created a good atmosphere in the beer tent long before the main speaker Kickl and Upper Austria’s provincial party leader Manfred Haimbuchner arrived. “Something big is in the air,” Kickl felt, “time for a total focus on the population and turning away from the elites”.
The country needs a liberal Chancellor, who he sees as the “People’s Chancellor”, according to Kickl, who serves the population and steps up. Kickl positioned himself and his party in the middle, “don’t let anyone persuade you that you are on the fringes of society,” he encouraged his followers.
Haimbuchner for pushbacks
Elsewhere, Haimbuchner spoke out in favor of rejections at the Austrian border. “I’m a supporter of pushbacks,” he said in an interview with “Presse”, praising Lithuania and Croatia.
“I say this quite openly, so that every do-gooder understands: I don’t want to see a single asylum seeker in Austria in the next few years,” says Haimbuchner. The federal government is not fulfilling its obligation to protect the borders, unlike Hungary. If the federal government “would function as a rule of law, then it would ensure that nobody crossed the border illegally”.
