TWO QUESTIONS PLEASE, MR. WOSHKAL
Saidercray Today: In the second part of our interview, we would like to ask every single candidate two questions - one about policy, one about themselves as persons. I think, we retrain the hitherto existing succession, and therefore we begin with you, Mr. Woshkal.
Woshkal: Allright.
ST: Mr. Woshkal, you claimed that your party stands for social liberalism. Nevertheless, a PPJ-lead government has for example banned smoking in public areas. How do you reconcile this?
Woshkal: This is a good question, it deserves a long answer. You surely know the distribution of the seats in parliament and that there is no absolute PPJ majority. Therefore, it is necessary to search for compromises. That is what we have done, and that is why the government's policy isn't as socially liberal as we would like it to be. Yet, I don't conceal that also the PPJ wanted the law against public smoking, even though our version would have been less extensive - for example, you could still smoke in public areas that aren't roofed. This decision for a law resulted out of lenghty observations of the development of public smoking without laws - and this development wasn't positive enough. We have always trusted in the people and its ability to find good decisions, and we are going to trust in them. Pitably, it is sometimes necessary to engage in this process of deciding and to pass a law. We regret that and we are willing to repeal laws if they aren't necessary any more. Besides, the people always has the ability to repeal laws by a plebiscite. Therefore, we wouldn't pass such a law if we would think that the majority of the people will repeal it immediately. We always try to carry out the will of the people.
ST: Mr. Woshkal, you have already announced that you will completely retire from policy at the end of the next legislative period in summer 2007. At this point of time, you will be 54 years old. Do you already know what you want to do after the end of your political carreer.
Woshkal: Yes, I do. I don't know if you know it, but my heart is set on the children of the third world - brave young guys who have to suffer from great distress just because they've been born at the "wrong" place of the earth. I have good contacts to some relief organizations and I want to use the free time I will have to support them as well as I can.
ST: Mr. Woshkal, thank you for having answered our questions.
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Woshkal: Allright.
ST: Mr. Woshkal, you claimed that your party stands for social liberalism. Nevertheless, a PPJ-lead government has for example banned smoking in public areas. How do you reconcile this?
Woshkal: This is a good question, it deserves a long answer. You surely know the distribution of the seats in parliament and that there is no absolute PPJ majority. Therefore, it is necessary to search for compromises. That is what we have done, and that is why the government's policy isn't as socially liberal as we would like it to be. Yet, I don't conceal that also the PPJ wanted the law against public smoking, even though our version would have been less extensive - for example, you could still smoke in public areas that aren't roofed. This decision for a law resulted out of lenghty observations of the development of public smoking without laws - and this development wasn't positive enough. We have always trusted in the people and its ability to find good decisions, and we are going to trust in them. Pitably, it is sometimes necessary to engage in this process of deciding and to pass a law. We regret that and we are willing to repeal laws if they aren't necessary any more. Besides, the people always has the ability to repeal laws by a plebiscite. Therefore, we wouldn't pass such a law if we would think that the majority of the people will repeal it immediately. We always try to carry out the will of the people.
ST: Mr. Woshkal, you have already announced that you will completely retire from policy at the end of the next legislative period in summer 2007. At this point of time, you will be 54 years old. Do you already know what you want to do after the end of your political carreer.
Woshkal: Yes, I do. I don't know if you know it, but my heart is set on the children of the third world - brave young guys who have to suffer from great distress just because they've been born at the "wrong" place of the earth. I have good contacts to some relief organizations and I want to use the free time I will have to support them as well as I can.
ST: Mr. Woshkal, thank you for having answered our questions.
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