Mastermind Schiefer

Kickl’s reorganizer could soon become finance minister

With Arnold Schiefer, a recognized restructurer is at Herbert Kickl's side.(Bild: APA/HELMUT FOHRINGER / APA / picturedesk.com)

Upper Austrian Arnold Schiefer is currently restructuring the budget for the FPÖ - and is also flirting with the post of finance minister. What you didn't know about the blue man of the hour and who else values his expertise.

He should have a free pass. No matter which portfolio Arnold Schiefer wants, he should get it from FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl, according to the Blue Party. As a joke, Schiefer is always supposed to reply: "Minister of Justice". Bad experiences with the WKStA are said to have given the reorganizer a taste for the justice portfolio.