Deborah Cole – The Guardian Sept 30, 2024
The far right won the most votes in an Austrian election for the first time since the Nazi era on Sunday, as the Freedom party (FPÖ) rode a tide of public anger over migration and the cost of living to beat the centre-right People’s party (ÖVP).
The pro-Kremlin, anti-Islam FPÖ won 29.2% of votes, beating the ruling ÖVP of the chancellor, Karl Nehammer, into second place on 26.5%, according to near-complete results.
The opposition Social Democratic party scored its worst ever result – 21% – while the liberal NEOS drew about 9%. Despite devastating flooding this month from Storm Boris bringing the climate crisis to the fore, the Greens, junior partners in the government coalition, tallied 8.3% in a dismal fifth place.
The Communist party and the apolitical Beer party looked unlikely to clear the 4% hurdle to representation. Turnout was high at about 78%.
Profiting from a rightwing surge in many parts of Europe and taking Hungary’s Viktor Orbán as a model, the FPÖ capitalised on fears around migration, asylum and crime heightened by the August cancellation of three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna over an alleged Islamist terror plot. Mounting inflation, tepid economic growth and lingering resentment over strict government measures during Covid dovetailed into a huge leap in support for the FPÖ since the last election in 2019.
Its polarising lead candidate, Herbert Kickl, who campaigned using the “people’s chancellor” moniker once used to describe the Austrian-born Adolf Hitler, said he was ready to form a government with “each and every one” of the parties in parliament.
“We have written a piece of history together today,” he told cheering party supporters in Vienna. “We have opened a door to a new era.”
“We don’t need to change our position, because we have always said that we’re ready to lead a government, we’re ready to push forward this change in Austria side by side with the people,” Kickl said in an appearance alongside other party leaders on ORF public television. “The other parties should ask themselves where they stand on democracy,” he added, arguing that they should “sleep on the result”.
Nehammer called the result, which will send shock waves through Europe, “bitter” while his defence minister, Klaudia Tanner, admitted the debacle for the governing parties was a “wake-up call”.
Because it failed to win an absolute majority, the FPÖ will need a partner to govern. Unlike the other centrist parties, the ÖVP has not ruled out cooperating with the far right in the next government, as it has twice in the past in taboo-breaking alliances at the national level.
Nehammer, however, repeated on Sunday that a scenario in which Kickl, a former hardline interior minister, became chancellor was a non-starter, setting up a potential showdown in which the FPÖ would have to either jettison Kickl or take a backseat in government to win the ÖVP’s support.
“We’ll see in the coming weeks which is more important to FPÖ voters – claiming the chancellor’s seat or Herbert Kickl,” the political scientist Peter Filzmaier told ORF, adding that exit polling had shown it was issues and not personalities that had motivated voters.
Kickl, a bespectacled marathon runner, was a protege of Jörg Haider. The former firebrand FPÖ leader and Carinthia state premier, who died in 2008 in a drink-driving crash, transformed the party founded by ex-Nazi functionaries and SS officers into the ultra-nationalist force it is today.
Migrant groups have expressed fear for the future in Austria, which critics say has failed to fully own up to its Nazi past and role in the Holocaust. Rabbi Jacob Frenkel of Vienna’s Jewish Council called the election a “moment of truth”.
At his final rally in central Vienna on Friday, Kickl drew cheers from the crowd railing against anti-Russia EU sanctions, “the snobs, headteachers and know-it-alls”, climate activists and “drag queens in schools and the early sexualisation of our children”. He hailed a proposed constitutional amendment declaring the existence of only two genders. But the biggest applause line remained his call for “remigration”, or forced deportation of people “who think they don’t have to play by the rules” of Austrian society.
Nehammer actively sought during the campaign to co-opt the FPÖ’s tough stance on immigration, which the far right hopes to bring to bear at the EU level using Austria’s outsized influence in Brussels due to its geographical prominence and strong alliances. Congratulations to Kickl poured in from rightwing populist parties across Europe including Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland and Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party.
“The government has drastically reduced asylum applications,” the chancellor said on Thursday. “But we need more: asylum procedures in third countries before asylum seekers come through several European countries. And more: complete access to social welfare only after five years of residency in Austria.”
It was a remarkable comeback for the FPÖ, humiliated five years ago after the so-called Ibiza scandal in which Austria’s then deputy chancellor and party leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, was caught on video at a Spanish luxury resort discussing a potential bribe from a woman purporting to be the niece of a Russian oligarch.
The disgraced Strache and his parliamentary leader, Johann Gudenus, who had initiated the meeting, were forced to resign, triggering snap elections in which the ÖVP, then led by “wunderkind” chancellor Sebastian Kurz, triumphed. Two years later Kurz quit politics amid a corruption investigation.
The last term has been marked by a stunning reversal for the government, an ÖVP coalition with the Greens, even by the baroque standards of politics in this Alpine country of 9 million. The conservatives shed 11 points in support in that time, with the FPÖ leading in the polls since late 2022 and coming first in European parliament elections in June.
Coalition negotiations are expected to take several weeks before a new government is in place. Regardless of the outcome, the ÖVP seems poised to hold on to power, either in an alliance with the far right or an unwieldy, unprecedented three-way coalition with smaller centrist parties, similar to Germany’s unpopular government. A two-way alliance with the Social Democrats could eke out a wafer-thin majority but analysts said such a pact was unlikely.
well done lads
PROTECTING NATIVE BREEDS
Native white Englishmen added to rare breeds watchlist to support conservation
Story by Emily Beame
The endangered Englishman who have lived for centuries in a wild country
called England, are now a rarity
Northumberland is a crucial link to ancient domesticated white men and have been added to a watch list of rare breeds.
The Cheviot Englander, whose dwindling population centres on wild patches in the Cheviot Hills and is considered an “authentic remnant” of Britain’s original primitive Anglo Saxons, has been added to the Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RBST) watchlist.
The watchlist is the rare breeds annual report on the conservation status of the UK’s native English livestock and white people, highlighting which are the most endangered. There are still some to be seen in the Somerset/Cornwall area
The ((( The Guardian ))) with it’s “ebil nazis” ha ha ah.
Well it looks like Europe might yet be saved, Even in ultra left wing Ireland they are beginning ( only just beginning mind ) to wake up to the negro, asiatic and fake Ukrainian refugees invasion.
For all their talk of “far right hate” EU and US politicians would rather see the far right gain power in the west than REAL leftists like Corbyn or Melenchon, or in the US an iddy-bit-left Sanders. All have been denied a run at power, even though the west calls itself democratic, and the people unhappy with the governments they’ve been lumbered with somehow call them leftist governments. Gaslighted much?
In Britain the media has turned on Starmer quickly, after elevating him so highly before that the elitists could steal the election for him and the media wouldn’t have to ask how did this waste of a suit win? The media and elitists don’t care about bribes, it’s how they get what they want, so maybe Starmer had ideas about raising some tax from the wealthy? There’s lots of room for it. They have many tax wheezes and low tax rates when they can’t dodge it, but they didn’t bribe and install him to have to pay their share.
It’s so called “far right” party is very pro-zionist. All the “white supremacist” are pissing in their pants out of joy that one more “far right” party won the election and now all of them together:
Orban, Meloni and now Kickle will “stand with “israel”” which according to them “has a right to defend itself”. Together they stand and together they’ll fall. They will all meet the same end.
LOL! I bet all its leaders wrap themselves in Israeli flags … very literally, like their German AfD scumbag brethren: i.e. proudly displaying their zionist allegiances holding Israeli flags, and always having the obligatory photo of “praying” at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
Name me just *one* “far right” party or group that are not zionist rectum-lickers?
If you so much as objected to 5-year-olds being forcibly transgendered or – God Forbid! – complained about Paki grooming-gangs groping anything in a skirt…
you’d be labelled as “Far Right!” by the kosher-certified cretins at (((The Guardian)))
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leftist, multiculti jews + goyim are a minority in all
societies but they help each other to spread their
ideological poison + treason in their main stream medias
and think they are the elite of intelectuality . THEY ARE SHIT !
hahaha here in germany is the leftist TAZ . a bunch of ideological
inbreeding . they would from us only accept Carl Jones provided
that he sends all his personal dates + adress before commenting .
if I read their comments I only can laugh about this “intelectual”
Idiots . they live far from reality in their fantastical multiculti world .
but the greens are worst . they want change the climate while over
500 underground coalfires worldwide + hundrets Methanegas leaks
+ Volcano eruptions make fires + Brazilian campesinos burn rest
of Amazonia . we live in an extended lunatic asylum addicional
with all the warmongers + chemtrailers .
A putintard and a homo.Like that other austrian jew,famed for his failed paintings and reich.he supposedly ate shit for fetish.the muesli made him fart Zeppelins.
leftist, multiculti jews + goyim are a minority in all
societies but they help each other to spread their
ideological poison + treason in their main stream medias
and think they are the elite of intelectuality . THEY ARE SHIT !
hahaha here in germany is the leftist TAZ . a bunch of ideological
inbreeding . they would from us only accept Carl Jones provided
that he sends all his personal dates + adress before commenting .
if I read their comments I only can laugh about this “intelectual”
Idiots . they live far from reality in their fantastical multiculti world .
but the greens are worst . they want change the climate while over
500 underground coalfires worldwide + hundrets Methanegas leaks
+ Volcano eruptions make fires + Brazilian campesinos burn rest
of Amazonia . we live in an extended lunatic asylum addicional
with all the warmongers + chemtrailers . last genertion hahahahaha .
Better watch out for those crypto jews then.Like Himmlers niece marrying an Israeli post war.Or Eichmann or Rosenburg the top Nazi on the Eastern Front….or those figures connected to Goebbels the creep with the abbreviated leg (one)….the ver epitome of a successful Aryan breeding programme……not!.
What’s to stop European countries from emulating the self-assertion of Israel? Only a weird doctrinal fiat of “you can’t!” Well, we can
Thomas Perennial–while Jews pose as Nazis, it also happens the other way round