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

[Former President tack50]

Why are the Greens rising so much in German-speaking countries?

I get why they are rising in Germany, with the SPD being officially useless and Linke being probably a step too far for most voters, but why are they rising in Austria?

Is it some sort of rally with the flag event or what?

[Former President tack50]

Austria very recently said goodbye to last coal powered power plant on its territory. I think this is noteworthy news, also from political perspective.

This is a welcome development.

No nuclear energy, no coal.

How on Earth is having no nuclear energy a welcome development? If only the rest of Europe was like France (where nuclear is the main way to produce electricity) maybe we could actually reduce CO2 emissions and what not.

[Former President tack50]

Yeah. Of the 2 big disasters with nuclear energy, Chernobyl took Soviet scientists ing around with the power plant for sh**ts and giggles and disregarding even the Soviet security protocols from the time and Fukushima took both an earthquake and a tsunami and a ton of negligence (though less than Chernobyl) to happpen.

As far as I know Austria is not earthquake prone and definitely not a tsunami area; so as long as the plants are relatively modern and operators do their job everything will be ok. France has been using nuclear for ages with 0 issues.

[Former President tack50]

Why did the FPO collapse so badly? And on that note how did it do so well in 2016 anyways? (you wouldn't expect Vienna to be particularly fertile ground for them)

[Former President tack50]

Women in Vienna between the ages of 16-29 voted:

36% Green
36% SPÖ
11% Beer/Left/SÖZ (all 3 are leftist parties, even Beer)
  9% NEOS
  5% ÖVP
  3% FPÖ
  1% Strache

Wtf I love young Austrian women in Vienna  now