Popular initiatives: Junge Liste recommends a double “No” – Liechtenstein
VADUZ – The young party Junge Liste (JL) speaks out against both recently launched popular initiatives. Accordingly, the JL recommends supporting neither the initiative for the dissolution of the state parliament promoted by opponents of corona measures nor the initiative of the DpL to abolish the franchise in the OKP for pensioners.
The Junge Liste formulated a slogan for both expected votes over the weekend, as the party announced on Tuesday. “We recommend our members and sympathizers not to support either cause and, in the event of a vote, to put a ‘no’ in the ballot box,” it continues.
No support for “Schwurbler”
The JL speaks out against the initiative to dissolve the state parliament, although they would like a more progressive government “than the same grand coalition of FBP and VU”. There are currently simply no reasons “to initiate a time-consuming and resource-intensive procedure (both for the state and for parties),” writes the JL. In addition, the young party would like MPs to focus on their work rather than their re-election.
“We also want to note that we are unlikely to support one that is intended by the Schwurbler Werner Stocker, Roland Rick and Johannes Ilic. Also the insinuations of the MiM party that they would support the initiative and that they would vote for the first election hope for a majority of mandates, gives us the suspicion that the early election is intended to enable individual opponents of the measures to be elected to the state parliament before the measures to combat the pandemic become obsolete,” said Junge Liste.
DpL initiative is “not the right way”
The Junge Liste also rejects the initiative aimed at by the DpL to relieve the burden on pensioners. The JL wants to work in all facets for a just society and fight poverty wherever it exists. “However, we do not see the deletion of the franchise for pensioners as the right way,” says the JL.
Poverty must be fought equally in all age groups because it is represented in all age groups. “In order not to give presents to people who don’t need them and to help people for whom premiums, deductibles and deductibles are not easy to pay, JL advocates a health insurance company that is based on salary and assets of the insured, or, in the best case, socialized,” according to Junge Liste.