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FPÖ Distances Itself from Friendship Treaty with "United Russia"
In a press conference, the Third President of the National Council, Norbert Hofer, clarified that the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) relativizes the friendship treaty concluded with the United Russia party in 2016. This comes in light of the recent accusations of an espionage affair involving the FPÖ.
Is party leader Herbert Kickl trying to relativize his party's closeness to Russia given the upcoming election campaign in Austria? / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / C.Stadler/Bwag / CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
Hofer emphasized that the treaty was signed long before the geopolitical tensions, especially before Russia invaded Ukraine. Hofer recalled that Russian President Vladimir Putin was warmly welcomed by other European political parties and politicians around 2016. He referred to visits to Putin by the then Vice-Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner, former President Heinz Fischer, former…
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