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

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New Ö24 poll:

45% ÖVP
18% Greens
17% SPÖ
10% FPÖ
  6% NEOS
  3% DAÖ
  1% Others

More than 70% continue to approve of the government and their Corona work. But support has dropped by a few points over the past 2 weeks.

https://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/politik/OeSTERREICH-Umfrage-SPOe-kann-zulegen-OeVP-weiter-auf-Rekordhoch/429119823

I want an OVP-NEOS government that will pass the constitution amendment about debt and deficit!

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New Ö24 poll:

45% ÖVP
18% Greens
17% SPÖ
10% FPÖ
  6% NEOS
  3% DAÖ
  1% Others

More than 70% continue to approve of the government and their Corona work. But support has dropped by a few points over the past 2 weeks.

https://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/politik/OeSTERREICH-Umfrage-SPOe-kann-zulegen-OeVP-weiter-auf-Rekordhoch/429119823

I want an OVP-NEOS government that will pass the constitution amendment about debt and deficit!

ÖVP + NEOS would have 51%.

That’s far away from a 67% constitutional majority ...

Besides, while I’d be in favour of the constitutional deficit and debt brake as well, it has failed in the past because while ÖVP+FPÖ (with the support from NEOS) had a 2/3 majority in the Nationalrat, it got blocked by the SPÖ and Greens in the Bundesrat chamber.

I do not want ÖVP-NEOS though. Way too neo-liberal.

But the FPO would vote for even if they were left out of the government right?

How are the OVP not sweeping the different Lander and taking full control of the Bundesrat? is this similar to Germany where somehow the SPD continues to have good grip of states despite poor federal results?

I don't know much about the NEOS, I had the impression that they were more moderate liberals than libertarian fanboys, and much more internationalist than the FDP. If a grand coalition is untenable than I would rather have OVP-NEOS. Greens politics was decent in the past, but the young greens are taking a massive turn to the left

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Hilarious story about Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen (Greens) and his wife:

Austrian restaurants are open again, but they need to close at 11pm (therefore nightclubs are not allowed yet).

20 minutes after midnight today, police were called to a restaurant in Vienna where an "obviously romantic couple" was still sitting in the outside area.

The "romantic couple" was President VdB and his wife Doris ...

Police filed a report with the responsible Vienna district administration about the gastronomy violation resulting from it.

The office of VdB confirmed the incident and the President apologized for it today, saying "he and his wife were deeply in talks and must have forgotten about the time".

The restaurant owner said that he closed everything at 11pm and expected guests still outside to leave eventually.

The FPÖ mocked the President today for it.

https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000117665947/bundespraesident-war-zu-lang-im-gastgarten

Should be noted that President VdB currently has no bodyguards or "secret service" protection and therefore the 2 were really alone there. He often goes shopping too alone or is riding the subway alone.

There is also a more serious aspect after all:

The Vienna police confirmed a corresponding report on Krone.at on Sunday afternoon. According to the report, the two prominent guests also had drinks on the table during the routine police check-up at 0.18 a.m. - which, according to Covid 19 law, is prohibited after 11 p.m.

This could have expensive consequences for the host. For violations of the Covid 19 measure laws, restaurateurs - for example, keeping open after 11:00 p.m. - are subject to a fine of up to 30,000 euros. Officially, the restaurant was already closed at this point.

In other words: the President and his wife + the restaurant owner broke the law.

While the President is immune to prosecution, his wife and the restaurant owner are not.

Also:

Immunity

The Austrian President enjoys full sovereign immunity from any type of official prosecution, including civil suit and criminal prosecution. The president may only be prosecuted with the explicit consent of the Federal Assembly. If a government authority intends to prosecute the president, it must refer a request for extradition to the National Council. If the National Council approves, the chancellor must convene the Federal Assembly, which will then decide over the request for extradition.

Will be interesting to see if the FPÖ files a motion to revoke the immunity of the President to charge him with a crime.

The Greens never missed a chance to vote for revoking the immunity of FPÖ-politicians, so the FPÖ could "return the favour" this time ...

Austria in a nutshell - a scandal where the President is having a deep relationship with his wife. UK in a nutshell - MPs go to male rent boys

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coalition-building is so long in GER\AUS...it's so ungerman to procrastinate on this

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Funny that the second biggest city in Austria is being run by communists. You’d never see that in the US.

Wasn’t Milwaukee run by a socialist mayor well into the 80’s?

So what exactly is preventing the KPÖ from lifting up in federal elections? There’s definitely room to the left of the SPÖ

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Communist surge in Austria? The world really is going mad