The video, originally taken at the end of July at a Salzburg function, shows Nehammer asking: “What’s wrong with the parents? What do you mean a child doesn’t get a warm meal in Austria? Not healthy, but cheap – a hamburger at McDonald’s.”
He goes on to say: “And someone is seriously claiming that we live in a country where parents can’t afford this food for their child!”
Nehammer also appears to target women working part-time in Austria when they don’t have childcare responsibilities, showing that part-time work hasn’t decreased. “If I don’t have enough money, I work more,” he said.
Das ganze #Nehammer-Video
via @Natascha_Strobl pic.twitter.com/IW0Obulc48— Lukas Abulesz (@lukas_abulesz) September 27, 2023
Ewa Ernst-Dziedzic, spokesperson on human rights for the Greens – Nehammer’s coalition partner in government – slammed the chancellor.
“Our job as politicians is to pay attention to those who are having a harder time in life,” she said. “They deserve our respect, solidarity and support instead of derision.”
Social Democrat Eva-Maria Holzleitner said: “Nehammer has to apologise to women. Who does most of the unpaid work in this country?”
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