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

[PSOL]

The KPÖ are just SPÖ in a darker shade of red. Still I’m going to root for their rise in the polls because I despise official European social democrats. After many years of far right fascists like FPÖVP bungling things up, many are tired with their nation being a joke country.

[brucejoel99]

https://twitter.com/Nassreddin2002/status/1665719914399776772

[Middle-aged Europe]

Hans Peter Doskozil is elected as new SPÖ leader:

https://twitter.com/ElectsWorld/status/1665021708980441092

Actually, Babler was elected and not Doskozil because they mixed up the results, to the SPÖ's embarrassment:


https://twitter.com/Nassreddin2002/status/1665719734862487553


Other sources:

https://orf.at/stories/3319205/

https://www.derstandard.at/jetzt/livebericht/3000000173322/spoe-setzt-ueberraschend-pressekonferenz-mit-an

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Approximate translation into THIGMOO English: following Yvette Cooper's removal as Leader, it was thought that Stephen Kinnock had been elected in her stead, but this was the result of an administrative cock-up and, actually, John Cryer won.

[JimJamUK]

What the actual f**k?

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

This is so goddamn funny

[Babeuf]

Beyond embarrassing for a serious party to have this happen.

[Mike88]

What the actual f**k?

Jesus Christ!! This is beyond embarrassing and could probably tarnish SPÖ's reputation. Like Babeuf said, for a major party this is... well, without words or comments.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Since when were there serious parties in Austria?

[brucejoel99]

Just incredible:

https://twitter.com/Nassreddin2002/status/1665741512829747202https://twitter.com/MartinThuer/status/1665273527841218560https://twitter.com/heimbergecon/status/1665741629632782338

[Middle-aged Europe]

RIGGED election!

[Logical]

You had 1 (ONE) job, SPÖ electoral committee.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

I love how this is an exact repeat of the presidential election screw up from a few years ago. Maybe Austria isn't mature enough to have a democracy lol.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Can someone edit Doskozil and Babler over miss columbia and Miss Philippines in the steve harvey screw up?

[buritobr]

The Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) chose a new leader. There was a technical error: a wrong winner of the internal election was announced. It was corrected only 2 days later.


Austrian Social Democrats announce wrong leader after ‘technical error’
Party officials say Andreas Babler won race, not Hans Peter Doskozil as previously declared due to Excel error
Austria’s Social Democratic party has admitted a “technical error” in an Excel file led to it announcing the wrong candidate as its new leader.

Officials at the centre-left SPÖ said on Monday that Andreas Babler, the mayor of the south-eastern city of Traiskirchen, had in fact won the race, and not Hans Peter Doskozil, the governor of the south-eastern Burgenland region, who had been declared the winner on Saturday.

“The ballots didn’t match the digitally announced result,” said the SPÖ’s electoral commissioner, Michaela Grubesa. “Because of a technical error in the Excel file the results were mixed up.”

The mistake had come to light only because a journalist had spotted a missing vote in the final result and raised the matter with the party’s electoral commission, prompting a recount, Austrian media reported.
...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/05/austrian-social-democrats-announce-wrong-leader-after-technical-error

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

I love how this is an exact repeat of the presidential election screw up from a few years ago. Maybe Austria isn't mature enough to have a democracy lol.

AuSStria, the country with the addiction to grand coalitions of Germany and to partitocratic patronage of Italy but worse in both cases, which goes "la la la I can't hear you" when you point out it started WW1 and produced Hitler, knowingly elected as president a former Wehrmacht intelligence officer, and can't even sodding count votes correctly, is not mature for democracy? Ha, what a fanciful and outlandish idea.

[PSOL]

Well, it’s happened again, Jacobin is creaming their pants over a lackluster nominal social democratic politician as the KPÖ rises to new heights

[PSOL]

Since when were there serious parties in Austria?

Honey, have you looked at what options there are in Britain?

[Harlow]

Communists make huge gains in Salzburg, and will compete in a runoff for the mayorship next week.

https://twitter.com/Wahlen_AT/status/1766858641108349342?s=20

https://twitter.com/Wahlen_AT/status/1766861276012064960?s=20