Hans-Peter Haselsteiner, who represented NEOS on the ORF Board of Trustees, will resign from office in December.
Hans-Peter Haselsteiner resigns from the ORF Board of Trustees. “In close consultation and by mutual agreement, Dr. Hans Peter Haselsteiner and NEOS have agreed that Dr. Haselsteiner will resign his seat on the ORF Board of Trustees at his own request in the course of December,” says a party broadcast.
The December 3rd session will be the last he will attend. His withdrawal is particularly explosive because the election of the new management will take place on ORF next summer. Haselsteiner was considered a Wrabetz supporter. He also criticized the ORF's circle of friends.
He was on the board of trustees for seven years. In his function, he regularly initiated fundamental debates on the urgently needed end of party politics in the highest ORF body and repeatedly pointed out the legal deficits for modern management and governance in the largest Austrian media company.
“But I have found that the representatives of the various circles of friends are far more important than the success of the ORF to their own power and party-political advantages. Unfortunately, this impression has become increasingly stronger in recent months. The importance of the foundation board as a strategic guiding principle and the control committee is almost zero today, “says Haselsteiner. Especially in challenging times for the ORF and for an independent public service offering, “opportunities are given away instead of finally opening up future prospects in a completely new structure.”
NEOS chairwoman Beate Meinl-Reisinger thanks Haselsteiner for his years of commitment and the vehemence to “drill hard boards” right up to the end. “In the interests of the ORF, Hans Peter Haselsteiner always put his fingers in the right wounds, but unfortunately many of those responsible in this area are still completely free of pain,” said Meinl-Reisinger.
NEOS can now nominate a new board of trustees. His successor as a representative of the pink parliamentary party will now be clarified in a timely manner. “When we nominate to the federal government, we will continue to only think of the future of ORF and not of ourselves,” said the NEOS boss.
