Not just East Germany. In Austria, too, the right-wing Freedom organization of Austria (FPÖ) goes after almost certain victory.
On 29 September there will be a parliamentary election in Austria. According to current polls, the right-wing FPÖ led by Herbert Kickl can number on a decisive victory. The group can receive 29 percent of voters. The second place is the Chadecka ÖVP with the support of 23 percent, followed by the Social Democratic SPÖ (20 percent), Liberal Neos (9 percent) and Greens (8 percent).
Does this mean that the government will change in the country? Currently, a reasonably exotic coalition of ÖVP and the Greens is in power in Austria. Both parties would most likely want to prolong their power, but it can be very difficult. In the erstwhile 2019 election, ÖVP received as much as 37 percent of the vote and the Greens 14 percent. Current polls indicate that voters are profoundly disappointed by the policy that this coalition is conducting. Support for FPÖ in turn increased greatly – the organization had previously received 16 percent of the vote.
The problem is that no group is besides keen to join the FPÖ coalition.
FPÖ is definitely a national party. It promotes the thought of Austria-Fortress (Festung Österreich). Among another things, it is simply a much stronger migration policy. The group would like to ban household reunification and reject all asylum applications. Above all, however, Kickl speaks openly about "remigration", which is the mass expulsion of unwanted visitors from Austria.
For many years, FPÖ has proposed a reasonably social economical programme, but this has now changed. Herbert Kickl declares his will to conduct a liberal economical policy. In this way, he wants to get closer to the Chadetic ÖVP and facilitate the creation of a coalition government.
For ÖVP, this may be the only chance to regulation at all. It would be impossible to build a coalition with the Greens themselves, and an alliance with the social democratic SPÖ would be programic absurd, as the social democracy in Austria turned left hard. The same difficulties would make an alliance with liberal Neos.
The commentators in Austria do not truly see any unchangeable alternate to the FPÖ-ÖVP coalition. However, it is simply a serious bite. Chief ÖVP Karl Nehammer consistently refuses to cooperate with Chief FPÖ Kickle, accusing him of alleged authoritarian strings. Kickl proposes, for example, the anticipation of the people calling the government back in a vote, which, according to Nehammer, would undermine democracy. In the FPÖ-ÖVP coalition, however, following the fall elections, the Chancellor's office would have had to come to that first organization – FPÖ explicitly rejects the anticipation of giving this position to the chapeques and taking junior-partner seats in the government.
If specified a coalition were to happen, this would mean a reasonably clear right-wing government in Austria.
Previously, an analogous coalition ruled from 2019 to 2020. Chancellor was then Chadek Sebastian Kurz and Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache of FPÖ. However, the government collapsed in 2020 due to a scandal related to Fear's contacts with the Russians (the alleged Ibiza-gate). Kurz then established a fresh cabinet with the Greens. In 2021, Kurz stepped down in connection with the corruption scandal in his party, and his successor was Karl Nehammer, continuing to cooperate with the Greens. With mediocre results, as indicated by the survey results.
The FPÖ government is besides possibly dangerous due to the position of Brussels. In 2000, the first specified cabinet was established, with the Chancellor of ÖVP. The government was then approached by the then leader of FPÖ, Jörg Haider, which caused a powerful political crisis – 14 EU countries imposed sanctions on Austria. Since then, the situation has calmed down and it does not seem to have occurred with the fresh government of FPÖ, although the organization has never had its chancellor.
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