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Austria's "far right" remigration party looks like its going to sweep elections
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:14 am
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Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:16 am to Fun Bunch
Expect a lot of references to a little painter from Vienna by the press.
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:17 am to Fun Bunch
I know nothing of Austrian politics, but I already know that anything the media describes as "far right" is probably anything but.
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:18 am to Fun Bunch
Sounds like it’s time for the ruling party to delay elections and/or disqualify popular candidates from running/outlaw the far right party/ introduce a fake splinter party so the center-left wins first past the post elections with a narrow plurality.
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:20 am to kingbob
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Sounds like it’s time for the ruling party to delay elections and/or disqualify popular candidates from running/outlaw the far right party/ introduce a fake splinter party so the center-left wins first past the post elections with a narrow plurality.
Came here to write this. What country kept disqualifying candidates? Was it Germany?
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:20 am to kingbob
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Sounds like it’s time for the ruling party to delay elections and/or disqualify popular candidates from running/outlaw the far right party/ introduce a fake splinter party so the center-left wins first past the post elections with a narrow plurality.
I'm going to be in Vienna in a couple of weeks so I'd probably not enjoy this shitshow, but you are probably right that this will be the tactic
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:28 am to Placekicker
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Was it Germany?
Germany and France both pulled this one in the past successfully.
The UK has been delaying elections and just recently created a splinter party to defeat Reform.
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:29 am to Fun Bunch
Can’t wait to see the fear mongering articles that seem to be always written by similar folks
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:30 am to Fun Bunch
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I'm going to be in Vienna in a couple of weeks so I'd probably not enjoy this shitshow, but you are probably right that this will be the tactic
Vienna is beautiful. Parts of it reminded me of a clean New Orleans French Quarter. Also, the local beer there is great!
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:32 am to Wildcat1996
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I know nothing of Austrian politics, but
You’re in luck. We have a premier expert on Austrian elections and politics who just so happens to frequent this board. His name is SFP. Sure he’ll be here soon to educate you.
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:34 am to Fun Bunch
If one of the western European countries engages in mass deportations it will put tremendous pressure on the others to do so. Most of the arguments against it will evaporate once a country shows it can be done. The only thing lacking is the political will to do it.
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:39 am to Fun Bunch
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Austria's "far right" remigration party looks like its going to sweep elections
A bit misleading. I don't think any snap elections are planned and the next scheduled ones are in 2029.
A more accurate description is "they're ahead in polling" more than they're going to sweep elections.
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:42 am to teke184
Well the party was started to reintegrate Nazis after WWII so
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:42 am to kingbob
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Sounds like it’s time for the ruling party to delay elections and/or disqualify popular candidates from running/outlaw the far right party/ introduce a fake splinter party so the center-left wins first past the post elections with a narrow plurality.
Considering they already won in 2024, your conspiratorial mind is showing its weaknesses.
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The Freedom Party secured the first far-right national parliamentary election victory in post-World War II Austria on Sunday, finishing ahead of the governing conservatives after tapping into anxieties about immigration, inflation, Ukraine and other issues. But its chances of governing were unclear.
Preliminary official results showed the Freedom Party finishing first with 29.2% of the vote and Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s Austrian People’s Party was second with 26.5%. The center-left Social Democrats were in third place with 21%. The outgoing government — a coalition of 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.
But to become Austria’s new leader, he would need a coalition partner to command a parliamentary majority. Rivals have said they won’t work with Kickl in government.
Now, what happened was coalition turmoil that led to Austria's first three-way coalition (that excluded the FP)
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Austrian politics has witnessed extraordinary turbulence this year. Last September’s watershed national election saw the far right triumph for the first time since the Second World War. What followed was the country’s longest coalition-formation process in history. When negotiations between the conservative People’s Party (ÖVP), the Social Democrats (SPÖ) and the liberal NEOS initially collapsed—prompting Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s resignation—a coalition between the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) and the ÖVP seemed inevitable. This would have broken the conservatives’ pre-election pledge never to negotiate with FPÖ hardliner Herbert Kickl. Those talks failed too, however, foundering on disagreements over key ministerial posts.
With options exhausted and suddenly determined to exclude the far right from power, the conservatives, social democrats and liberals returned to negotiations. The result: Austria’s first three-party coalition since 1947. Their programme, “Doing the right thing now. For Austria”, promises to get the country “back on track” and curb the far right’s advance. Neither objective has been achieved.
This post was edited on 3/10/26 at 9:43 am
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:44 am to coolpapaboze
I’m not sure that will work. Austria is a part of the Schengen area along with much of the rest of Europe. The Schengen area is very much so reminiscent of living in the United States where there’s a common market for goods and labor, free movement of peoples, visa free travel, and no hard borders between countries within Schengen. As such, if a migrant meets the requirements of the laxest Shengen nation’s immigration standards, they must be accepted in ALL schengen countries.
A lot of migrants take advantage of cou tries with lax immigration policies so they can get legal status in those countries and then relocate across the continent to the nations with more lucrative benefits. For example, Spain and Malta have really lax immigration policies compared to Denmark, Sweeden, or The Netherlands. So, migrants will take a boat ride to Spain or Malta first, get legal status, and then take a flight to the European nation of their choice to get benefits. It’s a race to the bottom.
Like, imagine if Vermont had an extremely strict immigration system and really lax entitlements, but Texas had an extremely lax system that rubber stamped anyone who wanted to come there from outside the U.S. Immigrants would ignore Vermont’s tight requirements and just go through Texas instead. This is why the entire nation having the same immigration system is important and enshrined in our constitution. The EU doesn’t have that. They put the cart before the horse by creating the common market and free movement of peoples before harmonizing the disparate immigration systems of its member states.
A lot of migrants take advantage of cou tries with lax immigration policies so they can get legal status in those countries and then relocate across the continent to the nations with more lucrative benefits. For example, Spain and Malta have really lax immigration policies compared to Denmark, Sweeden, or The Netherlands. So, migrants will take a boat ride to Spain or Malta first, get legal status, and then take a flight to the European nation of their choice to get benefits. It’s a race to the bottom.
Like, imagine if Vermont had an extremely strict immigration system and really lax entitlements, but Texas had an extremely lax system that rubber stamped anyone who wanted to come there from outside the U.S. Immigrants would ignore Vermont’s tight requirements and just go through Texas instead. This is why the entire nation having the same immigration system is important and enshrined in our constitution. The EU doesn’t have that. They put the cart before the horse by creating the common market and free movement of peoples before harmonizing the disparate immigration systems of its member states.
This post was edited on 3/10/26 at 10:24 am
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:45 am to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:51 am to SlowFlowPro
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The Freedom Party secured the first far-right national parliamentary election victory in post-World War II Austria on Sunday
They’re not far right. They’re just normal people.
What the media tells us is normal is gender mutant freaks.
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:54 am to AtlantaLSUfan
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They’re not far right. They’re just normal people.
Ok cool. I didn't write the article.
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:55 am to Fun Bunch
European "far right" is roughly equivalent to the politics of Barack Obama.
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