“Austria-wide Fleckerlteppich”: Corona rules lead to federalism debate in Salzburg
While Upper Austria is still in lockdown until December 17th, Salzburg has unlocked some areas, but not yet gastronomy – such as Tyrol. The FPÖ therefore criticized the chaos and confusion that federalism in its forms is now causing.
At the request of the FPÖ, the Salzburg state parliament debated on Wednesday in the alternate exhibition center how much Corona is wreaking havoc on federalism in Austria. State parliament member Andreas Schöppl first made a commitment. He is a passionate federalist. Even if there are ten governments and eleven parliaments in Austria – what was meant were a federal government and nine provincial governments, as well as the provincial parliaments, the National Council and the Federal Council. Schöppl argued that the sense of federalism was that the regions would know the countries better and thus …
Accessed on December 16, 2021 at 8:35 am on https://www.sn.at/salzburg/politik/oesterreichweiter-fleckerlteppich-coronaregeln-fuehren-zu-foederalismus-debatte-in-salzburg-114055291