Graz election
Graz elects a new municipal council: All information
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Right now there is a lot of criticism that too much has been built in recent years and the soil has been sealed off with it. Have mistakes been made in town planning? In a Sunday conversation with ORF Styria editor-in-chief Wolfgang Schaller, Nagl replies: “First of all: There are a lot of things that I don’t like in Graz either. Not even that so much has been built. ”One must ask oneself who is building – most people did not get a lot of interest on their savings accounts and opted for investor apartments.
“We have also grown by almost 100,000 people. And election campaign times are also times of particular forgetfulness. In the past ten years, City Councilor Elke Kahr and Vice Mayor Mario Eustacchio have been responsible for the building authorities and have issued 20,000 building permits, and all of the planning pieces we made were unanimous, ”said Nagl about the cooperation between the ÖVP, KPÖ and FPÖ.
No construction stop planned
A construction freeze for new projects called for in the election campaign is out of the question for the current mayor. Meanwhile, there are still many vacant apartments in Graz – to prevent speculation or to have additional living space, a vacancy tax could be introduced. The Graz ÖVP has always categorically rejected such a levy, its state party leader, Governor Hermann Schützenhöfer, can now imagine such a levy.
Siegfried Nagl in a Sunday conversation with Wolfgang Schaller
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Nagl thinks much more of new proposed solutions, “for example to say: If someone really doesn’t fit his apartments, he can offer them to the city in the future. Then we wouldn’t need to build any more community houses. ”In terms of public transport, Nagl is sticking to the plans for a subway:“ We need level minus 1, ”he emphasized in the Sunday conversation.
Hope for a coalition without KPÖ
All surveys show that the ÖVP will remain number 1 in the city again after September 26th. The only question is which party will form a coalition with. A fixed collaboration with the KPÖ would work out – but Nagl doesn’t want that, why? “Because they still uphold and pursue an ideology that has claimed 100 million lives, that brings only misery to the world today. That doesn’t make me a coalition partner. Hopefully another coalition will emerge. “
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