Double standards in Vienna?

FPÖ only wants a stop to “idiot” demonstrations during Advent

The groups calling for the banned "walks" were the same groups that had already called anti-vaccination activists to demonstrations in Vienna during the Covid pandemic.

(Bild: zVg)

Despite being banned by the police, Kickl sympathizers want to paralyze Vienna's Advent markets on the first Saturday of shopping. A dilemma for the Vienna FPÖ: it has always called for a ban on demonstrations that sabotage trade. However, this has mainly meant demonstrations by "morons", they now say.

For almost a decade, the Vienna FPÖ has been calling for demonstrations to be channeled into separate "demo zones" or at least banned where they harm trade. There have been motions in the local council, countless statements from the Johann Gudenus era to the current Vienna party leader Dominik Nepp and especially angry protests when demonstrations took place on shopping Saturdays during Advent. And now FPÖ sympathizers want to protest in exactly the same way, despite the ban.