Election campaign special:
Wlazny’s idol: Reykjavik’s punk ex-mayor
In the special election campaign talk on krone.tv, Beer Party chairman Dominik Wlazny reveals his political role model, talks about the topics of migration, education and health and explains why he now believes that his party is perceived as a major competitor.
Recently, the Beer Party has dominated the headlines with negative reports that it muzzles its employees, reports the newspaper "Falter". "That's not true," explains Wlazny. The confidentiality agreement not only serves to protect privacy, but also protects internal information as well as plans and concepts. "This is the case in many organizations." Wlazny can only understand this "attempted scandalization" to a limited extent, "because of course the focus is also shifted away from other scandals, which I actually find much worse. Let's talk about the mayor of Linz, let's talk about the Viennese allotment gardens, let's talk about the Kurz era. That was not so long ago. That actually hits our democracy pretty hard where it hurts."
He doesn't want to muddle about, says the beer party leader, "because muddling is not my thing". He sees it more as an accolade that the Beer Party has been recognized as serious competition. "If the party was polling at zero, one or two percent, then probably no one would be crowing about something like that."
When asked who his political role model is, Wlazny answers Jon Gnarr. He was once mayor of Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. In addition to politics, Gnarr devoted himself to punk music and cabaret. "He also started his party as a satirical project and was extremely popular at the end of the day. That was also shortly after the financial crisis in Iceland, when he was doing clever things," says Wlazny. The beer party also started out as satire. "Satire is a fundamental pillar of democracy because it simply points things out."
Watch the whole talk with Dominik Wlazny in the video above.
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