{"id":14112,"date":"2017-11-04T18:04:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/austrian-party-leader-resigns-over-harassment-accusations\/"},"modified":"2017-11-04T18:04:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T18:04:10","slug":"austrian-party-leader-resigns-over-harassment-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/austrian-party-leader-resigns-over-harassment-accusations\/","title":{"rendered":"Austrian party leader resigns over harassment accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Peter Pilz, a former leader of the Austrian Green party and founder of the Pilz List party, resigned on Saturday after 31 years in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Austrian weekly Falter reported Saturday that Pilz, 63, had groped a female employee of the center-right European People\u2019s Party during a conference in the Alps in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the allegation, Pilz told the newspaper he had been drunk at the time and said: \u201cI can\u2019t comment on it. I\u2019m sorry. But if there are two witnesses, I will resign. I have high standards and these apply to me as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference Saturday, Pilz stressed that, while he did not remember the incident, he took the allegation \u201cutterly seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also hit back at allegations made by a female former Green Party colleague who accused Pilz of verbal and physical harassment, saying the accusations were politically motivated, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tt.com\/politik\/innenpolitik\/13632274-91\/jetzt-live-peter-pilz-nimmt-mandat-nach-bel%C3%A4stigungsvorwurf-nicht-an.csp\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Austrian media reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Greens suffered huge losses after Pilz, one of the party\u2019s leading figures, broke away earlier this year to form his own movement, Pilz List. His new party cleared the 4 percent threshold for entering parliament in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/austria-heads-for-right-leaning-coalition-early-projections\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">last month\u2019s election<\/a> and handed a major defeat to the Greens, whose support fell to 3.9 percent from more than 12 percent in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Martha Bi\u00dfmann <a href=\"http:\/\/diepresse.com\/home\/innenpolitik\/5314544\/Martha-Bissmann-uebernimmt-Pilz-Mandat\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">will take over<\/a> his parliamentary mandate, but Pilz has not said whether he will continue as party leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be up to him whether and how he continues to support the party,\u201d fellow party member Wolfgang Zinggl <a href=\"http:\/\/diepresse.com\/home\/innenpolitik\/5314544\/Liste-Pilz-haelt-Krisensitzung-ab-Bissmann-uebernimmt-Mandat\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told Austria media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/peter-pilz-list-party-greens-austrian-party-leader-resigns-over-harassment-accusations\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Article<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"contfix\">\n<div id=\"contdto\">         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRMd3Tz2gX9xSa6CJyaOj2dokBVcrdaT4yY3R3RI7YmL18vCLZZ\"\/> <\/p>\n<h4 id=\"contfixlink\">Politico<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Pilz, a former leader of the Austrian Green party and ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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