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

[Zanas]

I'm sorry but are you completely out of your mind ?

Can't you really see how much of a problem it is for someone seeking supreme office to be declaring his income in other countries, especially in a fiscal paradise like neighboring Switzerland, when he will ask his citizens to increase their fiscal effort because of "the crisis", whichever this may be ?

Can't you really see how outrageous it would be ? Would you have Romney living in Luxembourg six months a year and financing Luxembourg universities more than US ones while being US President ?

[Zanas]

I love how all three right-wing candidates are men, two of them dull suit-tied stereotypes, whereas all three left-wingers (though we could argue that SPÖ is still left-wing...) are women, with SPÖ candidate kinda hot with that dress...

You cannot make up stuff like that !

[Zanas]

I find it very characteristic that his party would have a name in Denglish, having spent all his life in Canada...

[Zanas]

Yeah I hadn't realized that Team was so rooted in German nowadays. The German language is not the best resistant against the English language invasion...

[Zanas]

I like where the Greens' figures are going...

[Zanas]

Well that's a shame, since Cordoba in España lost its Communist mayor last year, that would have probably be the largest European city with a Communist mayor !

Anyway that's pretty comforting to see that voters are still capable sometimes of switching away of a centre-left party that compromises too much with the right to go for a more left-wing party not willing to do so. SPÖ must ask themselves questions now...

Oh and another thing : those councils with even numbers of seats are just ridiculous. You just don't do that.

[Zanas]

Well, until Dec 2011 you still also had Nicosia in Cyprus, but it turned conservative also. Now I only find Saint-Denis in Paris' suburb which has 105,000 inhabitants.

You could argue that Pisapia, Milan's mayor in Italia, is the largest city's communist mayor, but I think he's now much more of a social-democrat.

In Germany, Die Linke's got Schwerin with 95,000. Maybe fellow Atlas members could help us in that quest ?