Austria's Freedom Party - First Election Win for "Far Right" Since WWII

[Rev.Cambeul]

Austria's Freedom Party has secured the first national parliamentary election victory for the country's far right since World War II, finishing ahead of the governing conservatives in the Austrian election race on Sunday.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-30/austria-far-right-first-election-win-since-second-world-war/104412948

Juergen Wirth Anderlan, head of the Southern Tyrolian
Traditional Shooting Federation, speaks at a rally in Vienna
hosted by the far-right Freedom Party

Excerpt: Preliminary official results showed the Freedom Party finishing first with 29.2 per cent of the vote.

Chancellor Karl Nehammer's Austrian People's Party was second with 26.5 per cent.

The centre-left Social Democrats were in third place with 21 per cent.

The outgoing government — a coalition of Chancellor Nehammer's party and the environmentalist Greens — lost its majority in the lower house of parliament.

Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister and longtime campaign strategist who has led the Freedom Party since 2021, wants to be chancellor.

"I am a mountain climber, but the bag that I have been given is not light," he told supporters.

But to become Austria's new leader, he would need a coalition partner to command a parliamentary majority. Rivals have said they will not work with Mr Kickl in government.

In its election program — titled Fortress Austria — the Freedom Party called for "remigration of uninvited foreigners", for achieving a more "homogeneous" nation by tightly controlling borders and suspending the right to asylum via an emergency law.

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Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders, whose party dominates the Netherlands' new government, took to X to congratulate the Freedom Party on Sunday. So did Alice Weidel, a co-leader of the Alternative for Germany Party.

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