Austrian Elections & Politics 3.0 - Parliamentary Election: Oct. 15

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For posters who want to know why the Communists will get close to a quarter of the vote on Sunday in the city of Graz, watch this short "documentary" about Elke Kahr (party leader in Graz):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fP9vc89BvU

And read this:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=254431.msg5449940#msg5449940

Wow, that is pretty amazing. It seems KPO walks the walk. That is refreshing for a party of the left in 2017.

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English obituary:



Austria's minister for health and women, Sabine Oberhauser, has died, a statement by the chancellor said on Thursday of the 53-year-old who had suffered from abdominal cancer.

Oberhauser became a minister in the Social Democrat-Christian Conservative coalition government of then-Chancellor Werner Faymann in 2014 and continued as health minister when Christian Kern took over the coalition in 2016.

With a background as a unionist, she was a defender of women's rights and in 2016 assumed the role of minister for women at a time when she already knew of her illness, which she spoke about openly while she continued ministerial duties.

On Feb. 15, Oberhauser, who was also a trained paediatrician, said her Social Democrat Party colleague Minister of Social Affairs Alois Stoeger would stand in for her while she recovered from peritonitis.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-austria-minister-idUSKBN1622FN?il=0

How sad. Did she die from the Abdominal cancer or Peritonitis?  I only ask because a someone notable socialite in the UK died from Peritonitis maybe a month ago.