🇦🇹 Austrian Elections & Politics 6.0 - Upper Austria election: 26 Sept. 2021

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I can't believe that nobody has written anything about tomorrow's presidential election in Austria yet.
Incumbent President Alexander Van der Bellen, a member of the Green Party of Austria, is seeking re-election, which he is expected to win, albeit not quite as easy anymore as it had seemed at the beginning of the election campaign.
In the polls, he is still leading with a comfortable margin, but he has fallen below the 50% threshold in the meantime, so that it may come to a runoff in the end.
Trailing far behind, the FPÖ guy Walter Rosenkranz and Marco Pogo from the ... Beer Party are competing for the second place.
Oh, if you're wondering who that Marco Pogo is, he is the lead singer of the punk-rock band TURBOBIER that makes songs like this...

Wouldn't it be funny if Pogo really made it to the runoffs, so that Van der Bellen would have to go head to head with him in a live TV debate? 🤭
You won't guess what Dominik Wlazny (alias Marco Pogo) does for a living in "real" life...

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Either way, I'd vote for him or der Bellen.

Just to make things clear: "Van der Bellen" is the President's surname and "Alexander" his Christian name.

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Last INSA poll:
Quite a low result for Van der Bellen. So far, all incumbent Presidents in Austrian democracy who ran for reelection, easily secured reelection on the 1st round. We'll see what the result is this Sunday.

I wonder if the electoral authority really puts Wlazny's stage name on the ballot, though. 😂

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SORA's projection: 95% counted

56.1% Van der Bellen
17.9% Rosenkranz
  8.4% Wlazny
  8.3% Wallentin
  5.6% Grosz
  2.2% Brunner
  1.5% Staudinger

65.8% Turnout

What a great, great pity! I knew that Van der Bellen was gonna win re-election, but I'd love to have seen a face-off between him and Marco Pogo.