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

[Lechasseur]

Why did Schallenberg resign ?

[DavidB.]

Why did Schallenberg resign ?

He doesn't want to be ÖVP leader and thinks the Chancellor should also lead the ÖVP. Nehammer is much more of a party machine guy than Schallenberg. It would be strange if one were party leader and the other Chancellor. Essentially, with Nehammer now leading the ÖVP, the party shifted back from "turquoise" to "black", into the hands of the old party elite of which Nehammer is part.

[Pick Up the Phone]

Why did Schallenberg resign ?

He doesn't want to be ÖVP leader and thinks the Chancellor should also lead the ÖVP. Nehammer is much more of a party machine guy than Schallenberg. It would be strange if one were party leader and the other Chancellor. Essentially, with Nehammer now leading the ÖVP, the party shifted back from "turquoise" to "black", into the hands of the old party elite of which Nehammer is part.

Exactly. Schallenberg was never an ÖVP politician but a 'Kurz politician' - big difference. Now that the Kurz experiment has failed, there is no foundation for him to continue as Chancellor. He may become Foreign Minister again but the ÖVP is back in the hands of the old party establishment.

Obviously, there is no reason for snap elections. There is still a solid ÖVP-Greens majority to support the new Chancellor.

[Flyersfan232]

Why did Schallenberg resign ?

He doesn't want to be ÖVP leader and thinks the Chancellor should also lead the ÖVP. Nehammer is much more of a party machine guy than Schallenberg. It would be strange if one were party leader and the other Chancellor. Essentially, with Nehammer now leading the ÖVP, the party shifted back from "turquoise" to "black", into the hands of the old party elite of which Nehammer is part.

Wats the difference

[President Johnson]

Some good old Austria posting:

https://twitter.com/business/status/1528394415496126464

[MRCVzla]

Today September 25 were the State elections at Tyrol, 36 seats (majority with 18) with a 5% threshold, like at federal level, the incumbent government was a coalition between the ÖVP and the Greens, incumbent governor Günther Platte (ÖVP) is not seeking reelection and announced his retirement from politics in June. It's the first major State election since Kurz resigned and the coalition reshuffle under  and is considered a kind of test for the upcoming elections in 2023 (state elections in Lower Austria, Carinthia and Salzburg plus the Federal one).

First exit poll projections says both ÖVP and Greens losing support and their majority, affected by mainly by Platte' retirement, managment of COVID in Ischgl, the ongoing rising price crisis, and the unpopularity of the federal coalition. ÖVP (led by Anton Matte, who's name it's on the ballot) is still by large the first party but they will search another coalition partner, likely FPÖ who is up as well SPÖ, also will sightly increase its representation the local List Fritz.

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/1574054157757173760
https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/1574055402014216193

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Can this thread be renamed the Tender Branson memorial thread

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Those colours are very wrong - ÖVP are black and FPÖ are blue, not the other way round.

[crals]

Those colours are very wrong - ÖVP are black and FPÖ are blue, not the other way round.

Europe Elects uses a pan-european color scheme, blue for the center-right and black for the far-right

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Surprise, surprise: SPÖ and ÖVP announced yesterday that they will open formal coalition talks.

While there are substantive policy differences to overcome, ÖVP officials are optimistic about quickly forming a government, especially since the SPÖ is the only party that was open to cooperation on ÖVP issues such as expanding a hydroelectric plant.

[Estrella]

Styria is the strongest region for KPÖ, the Communist Party of Austria. They have multiple seats in the state parliament and in 2019 won an impressive result in Graz municipal elections that gave them the city's mayoralty. Surely this must mean that they are a relatively moderate party focused on social activism rather than tankies with a screw loose?

KPÖ state MP calls Ukraine "a cripple of a nation", says it should pay reparations to Donetsk and calls Balkan countries "puppet states".

This is, unsurprisingly, something of a pattern for the party. As the mayor of Graz will have you know, both sides should withdraw their troops.

*sigh* what is it with German-speaking leftists...

[If my soul was made of stone]

*sigh* what is it with German-speaking leftists...

IT DIDN'T HAVE TO END LIKE THIS

[Estrella]

*sigh* what is it with German-speaking leftists...

IT DIDN'T HAVE TO END LIKE THIS

Not to go too deep into national stereotypes, but with what the relationship of Germans/Austrians to authority is like, it was probably inevitable that they'd end up with a choice between turbo-Blairites, Stalinists and those who are both.

[If my soul was made of stone]

*sigh* what is it with German-speaking leftists...

IT DIDN'T HAVE TO END LIKE THIS

Not to go too deep into national stereotypes, but with what the relationship of Germans/Austrians to authority is like, it was probably inevitable that they'd end up with a choice between turbo-Blairites, Stalinists and those who are both.

Hence why only a Pole could save them, who they of course did dirty on account of that fact!

[YL]

Those colours are very wrong - ÖVP are black and FPÖ are blue, not the other way round.

I thought ÖVP were now turquoise.

[Хahar 🤔]

Those colours are very wrong - ÖVP are black and FPÖ are blue, not the other way round.

I thought ÖVP were now turquoise.

Doesn't matter, ÖVP is black.

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

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...

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

'centrist who supports green and socially liberal policies'

Okay, I'm going for Van der Bellen.

[If my soul was made of stone]

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...

If he makes it to the runoff then the party should fold, like the Best Party in Iceland did once they started actually winning elections, to avoid defeating the purpose of the entire satirical candidacy and being subsumed into the object of satire (cf. Mark Fisher on "Why I Want to F-ck Ronald Reagan").

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

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...

If he makes it to the runoff then the party should fold, like the Best Party in Iceland did once they started actually winning elections, to avoid defeating the purpose of the entire satirical candidacy and being subsumed into the object of satire (cf. Mark Fisher on "Why I Want to F-ck Ronald Reagan").

he's running a more serious campaign this time around though it seems. Either way, I'd vote for him or der Bellen.

[Mike88]

Last INSA poll:

https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/1578691851200376832

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.

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

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.

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

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. 😂

[Conservatopia]

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...

If he makes it to the runoff then the party should fold, like the Best Party in Iceland did once they started actually winning elections, to avoid defeating the purpose of the entire satirical candidacy and being subsumed into the object of satire (cf. Mark Fisher on "Why I Want to F-ck Ronald Reagan").

And yet the UK's satirical party, the Liberal Democrats, keeps going regardless of their success (or lack of it).

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

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...

If he makes it to the runoff then the party should fold, like the Best Party in Iceland did once they started actually winning elections, to avoid defeating the purpose of the entire satirical candidacy and being subsumed into the object of satire (cf. Mark Fisher on "Why I Want to F-ck Ronald Reagan").

And yet the UK's satirical party, the Liberal Democrats, keeps going regardless of their success (or lack of it).

Italy's satirical party, the Five Star Movement, was the most voted in not one but two consecutive elections.