SPÖ oddball Rudi Fußi now also wants to save Kika/Leiner

There is a strange development surrounding the bankruptcy of the Kika/Leiner furniture retail chain. The busy SPÖ oddball Rudi Fußithe Andreas Babler the party leadership is in dispute, should contact the management of Kika/Leiner or contacted the insolvency administrator and offered his help in rescuing the furniture retail chain. According to the motto: Nothing worse should happen to us than someone wanting to help, they apparently let Fußi have his way.

“KikaLeiner has liquidity problems, but is almost rehabilitated. There are significantly more assets compared to the need for interim financing. The cost of 1,500 unemployed people is much higher than the cost of liability. I informed Chancellor Nehammer, Vice Chancellor Kogler and Economics Minister Kocher of this in writing and now see the government as responsible. It’s easy to save 1,500 people from unemployment,” writes Fußi on Tuesday on Platform X.

“The company has mandated me to conduct the necessary discussions with the government on behalf of management and owners. My goal: to prevent a monopoly from forming, to save 1,500 people from their jobs, especially before Christmas, and to save a traditional Austrian company. We must finally give the economy the breathing room it needs. Otherwise we’ll hit the wall.“