Votes Swapped as Austria SPÖ Leadership Race Overturned
The party has been split on how to respond to the rise of the FPÖ—with Doskozil championing a more conservative line on immigration, and Babler wishing to take the SPÖ to the Left.
The party has been split on how to respond to the rise of the FPÖ—with Doskozil championing a more conservative line on immigration, and Babler wishing to take the SPÖ to the Left.
If coalition talks between the FPÖ and the ÖVP are successful and a government in Salzburg is formed, it would be the third Austrian state where the Right is in charge.
Vienna’s Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Dominik Nepp said that the “cycle of violence is apparently spinning faster and faster,” and has called for a security summit.
If the FPÖ’s successes in state elections are any indication of public opinion, it is clear that increasingly broad segments of the Austrian population also oppose sanctions against Russia, mandatory COVID-19 vaccines, and mass migration.
The political winds have changed. In the wake of President Macron raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, his already dismal approval ratings and popularity have sunk even lower, as two recent surveys reveal.
There is the potential for more Danish and Estonian contingents within the ID group to join in the defection, as Finns Party leadership looks disfavourably at the AfD’s pro-Russian line within the bloc.
With the FPÖ topping national polls, the coalition’s terms—which include a compensation package for the COVID pandemic measures—show that the FPÖ may lead a future right wing collaboration.
Prime Minister Orbán’s meeting with the leader of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) may have been intended as a message to the ruling Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP).
The election results mean that the ‘grand coalition’ between the SPÖ and the ÖVP will more than likely continue to rule in the region.
The trial was thrown out on procedural grounds, with the FPÖ rejecting accusations of bribery as baseless and defamatory.
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