Anti-FPÖ alliance

Petrovic deplores “highly undemocratic” campaign

Former Green Party leader Madeleine Petrovic supports the FPÖ.

(Bild: APA/Florian Wieser)

Former Green Party leader Madeleine Petrovic is highly irritated by an initiative supported by celebrities from politics, art and culture, whose declared aim is to prevent the FPÖ from joining the government after the national elections. The leading candidate of the small party Liste Madeleine Petrovic speaks of a "deeply undemocratic" process.

"It calls on us from the outset to exclude democratically elected mandataries and thus their electorate across the board," explains the Lower Austrian and makes a different promise: "The Madeleine Petrovic list is committed to the constitution, to fundamental rights and freedoms, to the duty of parliament to strictly monitor the government and create transparency - and above all to a truly democratic culture."

FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl calls himself the "People's Chancellor", the other parties and several civil society groups want to keep him away from government offices.

(Bild: APA/GEORG HOCHMUTH)

They will always strive for the best solutions to factual issues. "No matter which side these solutions come from," says Petrovic. The small party, which is fighting to enter parliament, has certain overlaps with the Freedom Party on two issues in particular: Corona policy and the war in Ukraine. Their movement's demands include immediate peace negotiations and a ceasefire in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip, as well as a reappraisal of the coronavirus pandemic.

Kickl finds initiative "mega embarrassing"
Incidentally, FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl himself finds the initiative entitled "Promises for the Republic" - which the initiators are demanding from all parliamentarians who do not belong to the FPÖ - "mega embarrassing", as he writes on Facebook.