Far right wins Austria election

[Harpy Eagle]

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/austria-holds-tight-election-with-far-right-bidding-historic-win-2024-09-28/

Austrian voters handed a first-ever general election victory to the far-right Freedom Party on Sunday, preliminary results showed, illustrating rising support for hard-right parties in Europe fueled by concern over immigration levels.

The Eurosceptic, Russia-friendly FPO held a slim lead in opinion polls for months over Chancellor Karl Nehammer's ruling conservative Austrian People's Party (OVP) in a campaign dominated by immigration and worries about the economy.

Led by the 55-year-old Herbert Kickl, the FPO won 28.8% of the vote, ahead of the OVP on 26.3%, and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPO) on 21.1%, according to a projection based on nearly all the vote by pollster Foresight for broadcaster ORF, a slightly bigger victory margin than final polls had indicated.


So, the left got 47.4% of the vote and the far right got 28.8%.

Unless Kickl can talk one of the other parties into joining him, he still will not end up with the chancellery, and that has a slim chance as of now.

 

[luiza]

A Hammer blow.

Right is Might and Might is Right, saith the Lord .

As for the Left .
Just Shite

 

[ESay]

Anyway, these guys won't get their government. The scheme was already used in the Netherlands and France, and on a local level in Germany.

 

[fncceo]

Stop trying to cheer me up.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Austria
Close enough !



Europe for the indigenous Europeans!

toss the locust people

 

[Tommy Tainant]

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/austria-holds-tight-election-with-far-right-bidding-historic-win-2024-09-28/

Austrian voters handed a first-ever general election victory to the far-right Freedom Party on Sunday, preliminary results showed, illustrating rising support for hard-right parties in Europe fueled by concern over immigration levels.

The Eurosceptic, Russia-friendly FPO held a slim lead in opinion polls for months over Chancellor Karl Nehammer's ruling conservative Austrian People's Party (OVP) in a campaign dominated by immigration and worries about the economy.

Led by the 55-year-old Herbert Kickl, the FPO won 28.8% of the vote, ahead of the OVP on 26.3%, and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPO) on 21.1%, according to a projection based on nearly all the vote by pollster Foresight for broadcaster ORF, a slightly bigger victory margin than final polls had indicated.


So, the left got 47.4% of the vote and the far right got 28.8%.

Unless Kickl can talk one of the other parties into joining him, he still will not end up with the chancellery, and that has a slim chance as of now.

Hateful regimes can struggle for traction. There are too many decent people. This party was started by former SS officers. Austria has never confronted its past.
Its a dark place.