Still No Resignation!
Nevrivy Wants to Ride Out the Scandal—No Resignation!
No district chairman has been embroiled in dubious schemes as often as Ernst Nevrivy. This damages the entire SPÖ.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen If you ask around in the SPÖ these days, you’ll quickly come across the word “dinosaur.” Many party members say that Ernst Nevrivy, district chairman of Donaustadt, is just such a creature. Which species? No one wants to specify, but in the public eye, he’s probably a Velociraptor who acts like a Tyrannosaurus rex—and causes just as much damage to the party.
As we all know, prehistoric reptiles are extinct, but the political dinosaur Nevrivy refuses to accept an early end and is relying on his tried-and-true method for dealing with scandals of all kinds: keeping quiet and waiting it out.
“A mayor who can’t do anything”
What really rubs his comrades in Vienna the wrong way is not so much Nevrivy’s assessment of the party leader. During the much-cited gathering in the wine cellar—for which Walter Ruck already had to pay with a severe hangover—the man from Vienna rants about Babler like a magpie: The “mayor who can’t do anything” is—to put it diplomatically—very fond of alcohol and intellectually inferior even to Nevrivy, which Nevrivy accordingly finds “depressing.”
“But what really hurts us are his privatization fantasies. The fact that a Social Democrat wants to sell off municipal housing actually goes against everything the SPÖ stands for,” says a City Hall insider. He adds: “In the real world, someone like Nevrivy wouldn’t be able to hold on to his position.”
The district chairman himself sees it differently. When asked if and when he’ll step down, Ernst Nevrivy replies, “No!” And adds, “No comment.” His favorite tactic.
Heisln, Wienwert, and the allotment gardens
Yet no district chairman has as much to answer for as Nevrivy.
- In a speech at the SPÖ party convention, he referred to activists demonstrating against the Lobau Tunnel as “Heisln.” Some apparently even found that funny.
- In the Wienwert case, Nevrivy was accused of breaching official secrecy, bribery, accepting benefits to influence others, and contributing to embezzlement. The court acquitted him —but to this day, the whole affair looks more than a little fishy.
- Then there’s the allotment garden scandal, which still leaves a bad taste in people’s mouths.
And so this political dinosaur will continue to run rampant through Vienna’s Jurassic Park—unless Mayor Michael Ludwig finally puts a stop to him.
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