"Krone" commentary
From the Dacapo of the demos
Exactly a quarter of a century after the sometimes rather chaotic Thursday demonstrations that took place at the beginning of 2000 against the then ÖVP-FPÖ government under Wolfgang Schüssel, these demonstrations are now back. A number of "democracy initiatives", as they call themselves, have called for a large demonstration today against an "extreme right-wing Federal Chancellor".
ON THE ONE HAND, it is absolutely clear that the right to demonstrate in a functioning democracy, as Austria is and remains, is absolutely beyond dispute.
ON THE OTHER hand, those organizations that demonstrated in front of the Hofburg on Monday, when Federal President Herbert Kickl gave the order to form a government, should be reminded that such demonstrations must take place within the framework of the applicable laws, i.e. registered in good time.
And of course this also applies to the hearty "grannies against the right" and "SOS Mitmensch" of the obsessive FPÖ stalker Pollak.
And one could take this opportunity to ask the "democracy initiatives" involved whether it is not a little strange that they are now demonstrating every Thursday again against a democratically legitimized (possibly approaching) centre-right government.
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