Austrian lawmakers on Thursday elected a far-right politician as speaker of parliament for the primary time, regardless of the Jewish neighborhood criticizing the candidate for having paid “homage to Nazi criminals.”
The far-right Freedom Celebration (FPOe) received nationwide elections for the primary time final month, profitable virtually a 3rd of the vote, though it has been unable to search out companions to type a authorities.
However because the stronger celebration, it nominated lawmaker Walter Rosenkranz, 62, a lawyer and former presidential candidate, as speaker of parliament.
Within the first session of parliament after final month’s nationwide elections, Rosenkranz was elected with 100 of the 162 legitimate votes forged, present parliament speaker Wolfgang Sobotka stated.
Rosenkranz, who has been broadly criticized for being a member of a far-right pupil fraternity recognized for its strident pan-German nationalism, was elected in a secret poll.
In a debate earlier than the vote, Conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who hopes to steer one other authorities, stated his celebration was “dedicated to the customs and traditions” of the parliament of the strongest celebration that nominates the president.
FPOe chief Herbert Kickl praised Rosenkranz for his “loyalty to democracy, the Structure and the rule of regulation.”
Earlier than the vote, Oskar Deutsch, president of IKG, which represents Vienna’s Jewish neighborhood, expressed his outrage in an open letter to parliamentarians, describing Rosenkranz as somebody from the “revisionist camp,” who “pays direct tribute to the Nazi criminals.
