FPÖ Surges to 32%, Austria Nears First Woman Chancellor
FPÖ Lawyer Susanne Fürst emerging as potential consensus candidate for chancellorship
FPÖ Lawyer Susanne Fürst emerging as potential consensus candidate for chancellorship
Parts of the Austrian intelligence community are lining up against the FPÖ as the party hopes to return to power in 2024.
The ruling ÖVP rolls out the rhetoric on immigration ahead of next year’s elections in an attempt to head off the growing FPÖ.
Prague and Vienna state they will not comply.
Austria’s former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, once hailed as a political wunderkind, faces three years in prison over charges of making false statements. The trial commences in October.
“The ÖVP can write as many papers [as they like] for Nehammer, the Austrians no longer believe this party. It’s over,” said FPÖ general secretary Michael Schnedlitz, who called for new elections.
Kneissl left Austria in 2020, claiming her critical views of Ukraine had made her a political refugee.
Presently, with the polling figures as they are, the national-conservative Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) will be needed to form a majority coalition unless the center-right People’s Party (ÖVP) is willing to take a sharp left turn to join forces with the SPÖ along with either the Greens or NEOS.
Nehammer’s plan, and that of his conservative People’s Party (ÖVP), is being viewed as an attempt to seduce voters away from the FPÖ in the run-up to next year’s parliamentary elections, which, the latest polls say, the FPÖ has a good chance of dominating.
A mere 38% of respondents reported feeling satisfied with Austria’s political system in 2022, down from 67% who gave the same answer in 2018.
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