The 2012 Austrian Election Interlude: The rise of Frank Stronach and more ...

[Leftbehind]

Is my translation right, and that earlier table showing ÖVP leading as the party for the bourgeois/elderly interests and who'd be best for the Viennese economy?

[Leftbehind]

LRF? I don't recognise that acronym.

[Leftbehind]

Ending the Euro? And the coming structural transfer of wealth from the North to the South? Business experience?

This guy literally sounds like the perfect candidate ever, as long as he's not like a xenophobe or something.

He's not a xenophobe, he actually supports immigration of skilled workers to Austria to help the economy grow (which of course is also supported by the SPÖ, ÖVP and the Greens). The FPÖ and BZÖ people are the xenophobes.

Oh. So this guy actually is perfect then.

lol

[Leftbehind]

What sort of masochist would want to imagine such a thing?

[Leftbehind]

A new party has been founded in Austria today: "NEOS - The new Austria"

Sounds like one of those annoying "increased spending with lower taxes" party that promise everything to everyone, a.k.a. pre-coalition LibDems. When xenophobic parties says it they at-least pretend they can make up the difference by cutting immigration.

Not to mention their proposed election-system sounds awful. I'm all for abolishing unnecessary second chambers though.     

Really? The past Lib Dems hardly promised everything, desperate to prove themselves 'moderate', and what they did offer, they tended to balance out with mansion tax, scrapping of trident etc. I'd say NEOS look far closer to the current Lib Dems: the only thing stopping them being seen as your standard right-of-centre neoliberal party is their equally liberal social stances, and even then it shouldn't.

[Leftbehind]

It's a shame it didn't amount to a mayor, but still good news. Also, the Pirates: seriously, just f**k off.