Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPOe), riding high in opinion polls and seeking to moderate its image, dismisses one of its lawmakers for an allegedly anti-Semitic Facebook post.
Susanne Winter, 58, has until 7:00 pm (1800 GMT) to quit her post as an MP in the Austrian parliament and from the FPOe or be expelled, the opposition party says in a statement.
She had replied on the social network to a posting about a global conspiracy of “Zionist money Jews” with: “Nice, you have taken the words right out of my mouth ;-).”
She added: “There are lots of things that I am not allowed to say. This makes me all the happier about courageous, independent people!”
The comments provoked outrage, with Vienna’s Jewish Community organization calling Winter a “disgrace to the Austrian parliament” and the chamber’s speaker referring the comments to state prosecutors.
Winter said her comments were in reference to an article that the other user was reacting to, but the FPOe sees it differently, saying she had “crossed a red line.”
— AFP
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