Fallito il sondaggio in Austria dopo la formazione del governo

39% for literal Nazis. Austria doing Austria things

Is FPÖ anti EU?

Can someone objectively explain their current popularity? Migration again?

Do any of the other parties have a chance in hell to catch up with FPÖ in the forseeable future?
A 20% lead over the second biggest party is… interesting. Is that considered normal in Austria?

Sigh..

More far right wing parties ruining the possibility of the EU uniting to make it more independant

And the worst part is that FPÖ is pro-russia.. why do we even let these kind of parties operate

Its pathetic and this is the worst time to vote for people like that.. hmmmm

You know what…
The EU of 2 speeds. The pro federalization member states form the federation and the rusophobe member states are a union with the federation or stay alone.

I had enough!!!

FPÖ comes with a lot of baggage that no one in the country wants. Pro Russia, anti-science, anti-LGBT. But people don’t vote for FPÖ to get those things. Voters decided to draw a line in the sand on immigration. And a particular kind of immigration. Liberal parties need to come to terms with this or watch the FPÖ dismantle institutions.

This for example happened  the last time the FPÖ got power, happened not even a decade ago:

“The BVT Affair revolves around a political and judicial controversy involving Austria’s domestic intelligence agency (BVT) and the Interior Ministry, led by FPÖ politician Herbert Kickl. The main points are:

-Allegations of Political Interference: Opposition claims the Interior Ministry used a dossier of accusations to reorganize the BVT and pressure prosecutors.

-Raid on BVT: A controversial raid on BVT offices, allegedly orchestrated by FPÖ-affiliated individuals, resulted in the seizure of sensitive documents. The opposition criticized the timing and justification for the raid, which the judiciary later declared mostly unlawful.

-Suspensions and Pressure: The BVT’s director and other officials were suspended, leading to accusations of politically motivated targeting. Some suspensions were later overturned by courts.”

So basically, the police raided the Austrian intelligence agency at gunpoint and seized 40 Terabytes of data of which some was “disappeared”, never to be seen again! We still don’t know who exactly orchestrated the entire thing or what happened exactly.

The Ibiza affair, also known as the Strache affair or Ibizagate, was a political scandal in Austria that led to the collapse of the governing coalition between the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) and the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) in May 2019. The scandal was triggered by the release of a secretly recorded video showing Heinz-Christian Strache, then Vice Chancellor and leader of the FPÖ, along with Johann Gudenus, a National Council member and acting FPÖ parliamentary group leader at the time. The footage, recorded secretly a few months before the July 2017 national election, depicts the two politicians meeting with a woman posing as the niece of a Russian oligarch in a villa on the Spanish island of Ibiza. The video reveals their willingness to engage in corruption, circumvent laws on party financing, and covertly take control of independent media.

Karin Kneissl, our former Minister of Foreign Affairs invited Putin to her wedding right after the Novichok poisonings where he tried to assassinate someone in the UK. She now lives in Saint Petersburg btw.

The FPÖ has a “friendship contract” with Russian government, its contents have never been revealed to the public.

Then of course there’s the tight-knit connections to the identitarians.

Then just a couple months ago a couple of FPÖ national council members sang a famous SS song at a funeral and then proceeded to claim it was all just one big misunderstanding and the media is too mean to them yada yada yada

And the list just goes on….

It’s shocking how the FPÖ is consistently polling at almost 40%  now, so if we had reelections right now we wouldn’t be all too far from a FPÖ majority. It’s like people have forgotten this ever happened, or just don’t care. Idk which one is worse…

We are pretty much witnessing a total collapse of liberal democracy in all countries. It’s sad that we have to go this way but the incumbent traditional parties everywhere are as much to blame for being wholly incapable of resolving the problems of the age we live in. A political system that moves at the speed of the 19th century for which it was designed can no longer operate to solve problems that happen at 21st century speeds.

Austria, you’ve done it again…

WTF is wrong with people.

The current levels of migration are culturally and socially unsustainable. Redditors can bury their head in the sand and pretend it’s not a serious issue, however.

Actually ÖVP and FPÖ are constantly at around 55-58%. 

They were also at that value in last year’s election and for example back in 1927 the sum of ÖVP (called “Christian Socialists back then) and the “third camp” (back then the German Nationalists, now the FPÖ) was at 55%. 

Austria has a 55/45 majority for right wing/authoritarian politics since it’s foundation 1918, in the US we’d be a “red state” like Alabama. The only thing that changes is the distribution between FPÖ and ÖVP. Only Kreisky in the 70s was able to break that a bit because he was very talented and knew how to split the right wing a bit and pull some of theirs voters on the other side for some time but that was the exception, not the rule…