Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer on Wednesday «strongly» condemned any possible act of corruption committed during the government of his predecessor and member of the Austrian People’s Party (OVP), Sebastian Kurz, who resigned in 2021 in the midst of a crisis caused precisely by the accusations made against him.
Now, Nehammer has assured that, in case it is proven that these acts were committed, «he will condemn them in the strongest way», although he has asked that for the moment the matter follows its legal course and be handled by the country’s Justice.
Although Kurz has been accused of using public funds to pay for falsified polls on voting intentions, Nehammer has urged caution. «The judiciary will look into the case, but the country has more pressing problems, such as inflation,» he said, while Kurz continues to deny the accusations against him.
The Greens have warned that what happened with the OVP and Kurz has damaged confidence in politics. The opposition, for its part, insists that early elections be called.
This case is apparently not related to the investigation of the ‘Ibiza affair’ or ‘Ibizagate’, a corruption scandal detected within the government coalition of the Chancellor’s conservatives.
