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

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I will try reading the entire coalition program with the aid of Google Translate. I will publish my thoughts on it later.

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Doesn't the billboard have double meaning, considering that Kern was the SPO leader back then?

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Nuclear energy is highly dangerous (see contamination in Central Europe through winds from Ukraine). The soil is still poisoned here and children born with hydrocephalus or short arms.

Actually the cause of Chernobyl disaster is the same as the cause of the COVID-19 epidemic. It's the communist system.

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Result from the town of Eisenerz ("Iron Ore"):





Eisenerz is something like Coal Country in WV.

The city once had 15.000 inhabitants in the 1950s, now just 3.800 anymore.

It has the highest share of people older than 65 in Austria, with a 45% share. (Young) people have abandoned the town after the iron ore mining boom ended.

Now, the town is most famous for the Erzberg Rodeo, a huge annual event where motorcycles drive up the iron ore mountain in the town.

Usually an SPÖ and KPÖ stronghold (in 2015: 53% SPÖ, 20% KPÖ) - it now voted for the ÖVP.

With which party will ÖVP form the ruling coalition there?

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Christina Kohl, candidate for H.C. Strache’s new party in Vienna, has been fired by her employer - the airline AUA - after anti-Semitic comments at a Vienna demo:



https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000119345305/team-strache-kandidatin-wegen-antisemitischem-demo-sager-gekuendigt

Kohl shouted „Soros has to go, Rothschild has to go, Antifa has to go.“ at an Anti-Coronavirus measures demo.

Seems like cancel culture has also infected Austria, which is shameful! ^/s

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The Vienna-FPÖ is out with their first poster wave (ca. 5.000 all over the city):

"Radikaler" is with really tiny letters (like it doesn't exist) compared to "Islam"...

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Satire ?

Kickl criticizes Kurz for "EU bashing"

"Who should still trust this Chancellor who betrays his partners both at the national and EU level and stabs them in the back when it is for his own benefit ?" asks FPÖ club chairman Herbert Kickl in a press release in response to the statements of the ÖVP Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on the EU's vaccine procurement.

The FPÖ criticized Kurz for his "desperate EU bashing". This is "implausible. In November, the Chancellor applauded Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during a video conference, who spoke of vaccine procurement as one of the great success stories of the EU," says Kickl, "just one day after a poll that was catastrophic for the Chancellor became known in which almost two thirds of all respondents distrust the vaccine from AstraZeneca, which is mainly bought by the government, Sebastian Kurz accidentally discovered the guilt of the EU."

Not a joke:

https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000125389347/fpoe-buergermeister-startet-petition-fuer-aufnahme-von-fluechtlingen

The FPÖ mayor of Hohenems launched a petition to admit refugees from the Greek camps.

"We cities and municipalities are ready to make our contribution to a humanitarian solution and to take in children and women from these refugee camps. And we urgently appeal to the Austrian federal government to reconsider its negative attitude and to accept refugees in Austria."

Is this the start of FPÖ's political transformation?

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Chancellor Schallenberg and Finance Minister Blümel, both ÖVP, just resigned. What's next? New elections?

German news sources say Karl Nehammer, Interior Minister, is likely to be next ÖVP leader and chancellor.

I hope there will be snap elections and the SPÖ comes to power again.

What do polls indicate right now?

SPÖ first, and a red-green-pink (SPÖ-Grüne-Neos) coalition is possible.