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

[rob in cal]

  The tax cuts seem pretty substantial. Is this something that had been campaigned on by the OVP? It will be intresting  to see Green party members of parliament voting for this.

[rob in cal]

  It will be fascinating to watch the SPO and FPO in opposition together, and whether their criticism of th new government start to converge.

[rob in cal]

  So what would the ideology of DAO be compared to FPO?

[rob in cal]

Tender, do we have the breakdown of which languages are the leading ones by %.

[rob in cal]

  Tender, how would you evaluate the current Kurz OVP-Green coalition in terms of the OVP not bending too far in the direction of the Greens and protecting its right flank from losses to FPO.  Also, the Greens in terms of being perceived as enabling Kurz and the OVP and thus losing voters to the SPO.  Seems like a difficult balancing act for both parties to accomplish this over time.

 Also, how has the new govt been handling immigration and asylum cases compared with OVP/FPO.

[rob in cal]

Tender, the SPO FPO alliance on the pension issue is fascinating, reminds me of the SPO FPO Burgenland coalition of a few years ago. If the FPO could ever clean up its act, the SPO move toward them on immigration to a significant level, and both parties do better in the next election, like win a combined majority, what an interesting spectacle that would be. Probably not realistic for any three scenarios to happen.

Concerning the Greens, it does make sense that sooner or later their wealthier, non-blue collar worker type electorate is going to show itself in terms of policy.

[rob in cal]

  So did the Greens end up voting with the FPO as well as the OVP on this issue then? That makes for an interesting line up.

[rob in cal]

  Tender, what do you think of the Klagenfurt mayor runoff. In theory if the vast majority of FPO and OVP voters go for the TK candidate Scheider, he'd be in good shape.

[rob in cal]

I would think the FPO would like to calmly stay in opposition and hope to win alot of right of center OVP voters who are disgusted with Kurz related corruption in the coming months and years.