Vienna / Ried. If Heinz-Christian Strache and the FPÖ split up, who will have the Ash Wednesday speech? The former party friends of these days are bickering over this question – today there is a showdown.
Strache wants to provoke his ex-party and, like every year, delivers his Ash Wednesday speech. This time, however, at an event of the blue demerger DAÖ in the Prater Alm in Vienna. And just at the same time as his successor Norbert Hofer, who will take the stage at 8.15 p.m. 260 kilometers further on the Ash Wednesday of the FPÖ in Ried.
Political comeback. Strache plans to steal the show from the FPÖ: reportedly he will announce his appearance in the Vienna election on Ash Wednesday.
Both sides are already busy in advance: DAÖ boss Karl Baron explains on oe24.TV that the FPÖ event is “a plagiarism”. Strache is the Ash Wednesday original – that’s why, according to Baron, the DAÖ event in the Prater Alm (for 20 euros there are two drinks and a herring feast in addition to the speech) would also be sold out, while the FPÖ would not be able to get their tickets.
Hofer does not want to mention Strache’s small party
Meanwhile, Hofer complains about Strache’s new party: “This is not a split, not even a surface erosion.” He did not even want to mention the mini-party in his speech today. It remains to be seen if he can keep it up.
Humorless. By the way, the FPÖ does not tolerate jokes about Ash Wednesday: When the ÖSTERREICH editor Wolfgang Fellner jokes whether the FPÖ is celebrating the festival in the “Adolf Hitler Hall” in Ried (it is the Jahnturnhalle), the FPÖ responds with one Legal action.
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