Is the far proper returning to energy in Austria? Within the nation’s parliamentary elections held on 29 September, Herbert Kickl’s Freedom Get together (FPÖ, far-right) led the polls and emerged with with 29.1% (57 seats out of 183), forward of the Individuals’s Get together (ÖVP, proper), which took 26.4% (52 seats). The Social Democratic Get together (SPÖ, center-left) got here third (21%, 41 seats), main solely in its stronghold of Vienna.
The FPÖ’s success is a part of a pattern already noticed throughout the continent: far-right events are already within the majority within the Netherlands, Italy, France and Hungary. One factor price taking into account, nonetheless, is that the celebration based by former Nazis has already had energy earlier than – and located itself embroiled in a number of political crises which have critically broken its fame up to now. However the query stays: is Austria going to finish up with a far-right chancellor? In the intervening time, neither the ÖVP nor the SPÖ have indicated any intention of forming a coalition with the FPÖ by itself phrases.
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