ER Editor: Austrians went to the polls yesterday with a strong turnout of around 80%. Note that the nation’s election results mirror the European elections more or less on June 9 of this year. Elections in France and the UK recently produced – very curiously – radically different results despite the clear swing to the populist right across the board.
In the Austrian election, the populist right won (29%) with the Establishment right a fairly close second. Social Democrats (socialists) came third with the Greens falling way down to 8%. Seems to be a typical kind of result.
A reminder that Austrians suffered from some of the harshest ‘Covid’ and ‘vaccine’ killshot policies in Europe under centre-right Karl Nehammer’s government. That plus immigration, little surprise that the populist right won.
Some additional reporting from Politico.eu, using all the slurs against the winning party you would expect —
Austria goes back to the future as voters embrace far-right party founded by Nazis
The biggest loser of the night was the ÖVP, which lost nearly one-third of its voters. (ER: This is the globalist right, responsible for those Covid policies.)
“We fought to come from behind, but it wasn’t enough,” Chancellor Karl Nehammer acknowledged in remarks to supporters.
The ÖVP has been dogged by a string of corruption scandals triggered by the Ibiza investigations that forced the resignation of the party’s youthful chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, in 2021. (ER: Kurz was a Young Global Leader)
Another MSM warning for the Daily Mail ––
Austrian hard-right party WINS ‘earthquake’ election after pledging to close borders and end support for Ukraine: Leader called for ‘non-ethnic Europeans’ to be expelled
Twitter —
Another win for the #Patriots: an historic victory for #FPÖ in #Austria! Congratulations to Herbert Kickl!
— Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) September 29, 2024
Good news! Freedom Party comes in first in #Austria election!
Bad news! Other parties will collude to keep them out of government…
…so nothing will change. As always.
Ain’t “democracy” wunnerful? https://t.co/D5dJl6HpwH
— Jim Jatras (@JimJatras) September 30, 2024
Congratulations to #Austria’s Freedom Party (FPO) for their victory!! @FPOE_TV
People are tired of the woke, socialist agenda. #FPO #EU #Europe pic.twitter.com/FQAX3MdSxU
— Shea Bradley-Farrell (@DrShea_DC) September 29, 2024
#BREAKING: Austria’s Freedom Party has won Sunday’s general election, putting the far-right group in pole position to form a coalition for the first time since World War Two, projections show#FreedomParty #Austria#AustriaGeneralElections#HerbertKickl
— JUST IN | World (@justinbroadcast) September 29, 2024
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Right wing triumphs in Austrian election
The Freedom Party has won its first ever national vote, but will likely find it difficult to form a government
RT
The right-wing Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) has won its first ever general election, emerging three points ahead of Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s Austrian People’s Party (OVP) according to an exit poll published on Sunday evening.
The FPO secured 29.1% of the vote, ahead of the OVP with 26.2% and the center-left Social Democrats with 20.4%, according to Austria’s ORF broadcaster. The liberal NEOS party and the Greens came in a distant fourth and fifth place with 8.8% and 8.6% respectively.
The result comes three months after the FPO narrowly defeated the OVP in the European Parliament election, winning 25.4% of the vote to 24.5%.
The FPO has been a fixture in Austrian politics since the 1950s, but has never surpassed either the center-right OVP or the Social Democrats to win first place in a national election. The party joined a conservative coalition in 1999, and again in 2018, but was forced out of government the following year when its then leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, became embroiled in a corruption scandal.
Now under the leadership of Herbert Kickl, the party promised voters stiff immigration restrictions, including the “remigration of uninvited foreigners,” and vowed to use emergency powers to suspend the right to asylum. Kickl is also an opponent of EU sanctions on Russia, and has called European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen a “warmonger.”
In its manifesto, the FPO promised to stop paying into the EU’s weapons fund for Ukraine. “We stand for an active policy of peace and neutrality,” the document reads. In a separate section, it calls for Austria to resume purchasing Russian gas.
The FPO’s victory does not mean that the party will be able to form a government. As is the case with the right-wing AFD in Germany, most of Austria’s establishment parties have ruled out cooperating with them. Nehammer’s OVP has stated that it is open to working with the FPO, but would not join a government led by Kickl.
Kickl is a close ally of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a fellow immigration hardliner and opponent of military aid to Ukraine. The FPO, Orban’s Fidesz, and Czech opposition party ANO formed an EU Parliament alliance in June. Orban has vowed that the group, calling itself ‘Patriots for Europe’ will “very quickly become the largest faction of the European right-wing.”
Sunday’s victory for the FPO comes amid a broader shift to the right in European politics. After a resounding victory in the European Parliament election in June, France’s National Rally was only beaten in legislative elections in July by a strategic voting agreement between centrist and left-wing blocs (ER: Yes, but only after the polls had suddenly swung over to the Left without adequate explanation 45 minutes before the polls closed). Meanwhile in Germany, the AFD has won one state-level election and come a close second in two others this summer, while in the Netherlands, the populist PVV is now the country’s largest party and the dominant faction in its current coalition government, formed in July.
Source
Featured image source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rdygy5888o
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