- Title: 357 AT Kurz Ibiza questioning
- Date: 24th June 2020
- Description:Austrian Chancellor Kurz was questioned today by a parliamentary committee on his role in the Ibiza affair What did the Austrian Chancellor know and what did he support? From 10 a.m. onwards, Sebastian Kurz answered questions from Members of the parliamentary Inquiry Committee on Ibiza and Casinos. Under enormous media interest Chancellor Kurz entered the committee restaurant. The opposition parties in particular want to hold the ÖVP into account. The questioning itself then focused on an SMS exchange between Kurz and former vice chancellor Heinz Christian Strache that appeared yesterday and on the question of whether Kurz will now present all SMS and appointment calendars. Personal records did not have to be archived after his removal from office as Chancellor, Kurz said, and that his text messages had been regularly deleted. Shotlist - SOUNDBITE (German) Stephanie Krisper, liberal NEOS group leader Ibiza parliamentary Committee of Inquiry: “ Kurz brought Strache to the fore – and to to feed troughs. As we know now the FPÖ acted in a very clumsy way to profit from these feed troughs. But for sure they did not dance this Tango Corrupti alone, probably the chancellor has often been the leading dancing partner." - SOUNDBITE (German) Nina Tomaselli, ecologist Die Grünen group leader Ibiza parliamentary Committee of Inquiry: “Regarding the ÖVP donor’s list we will show that every donor had his part of personal interest. This may not be criminally relevant." - SOUNDBITE (German) Wolfgang Gerstl, people’s party ÖVP group leader Ibiza parliamentary Committee of Inquiry: “Today Chancellor Kurz can finally answer all questions and I expect all suspicion and speculation to cease after that." - SOUNDBITE (German) Jan Krainer, social-democratic SPÖ group leader Ibiza parliamentary Committee of Inquiry: “We will ask if he only shredded printer hard drives or also his calendars. And his e-mails and his SMS. Otherwise, they should have to be here. If he did not shred it, he still can hand it out. But the main question is to know how cooperative are members of the government in this case." - SOUNDBITE (German) Christian Hafenecker, right wing FPÖ group leader Ibiza parliamentary Committee of Inquiry: “Today it is serious, today he is bound by the truth, and as I mentioned before, we have built-in some control questions and as you can imagine we already know some answers to our questions, I am only curious how he will answer it." - MS Journalists waiting for Kurz arriving - MS Committee members arriving with records trollies - PAN LEFT Jan Krainer arriving - VS Sebastian Kurz arriving, not answering the question whether he plans to answer all questions - VS Camera crews and photographs - VS Sebastian Kurz behind plexiglass panel
- Collection: ORF
- Genre:News
- Producer:ORF
- Transmission Date:24/06/2020
- Decade: 2020s