Austrian Elections & Politics 2.0 (Presidential runoff re-vote: 4 Dec. 2016)

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Is FPS a Salzburg-based FPO split?

Also  it's interesting how the OVP have held up steady while the RedGreens have fallen back; even while the beneficiary of post-2013 growth has been right-wing parties, like NEOS and FPO.

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Is it me, or does a candidate jointly backed by FPO and NEOS seem absurd?

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Lol wtf. Oh, austria

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what elections are in 2016, again?

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Would the new position be called the Fuhrer?

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"enemy of the state and a threat to Austrian citizens"

this ... is pretty bad rhetoric, even for the FPO

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More the "enemy of the state" rhetoric tbh which is ... not really the sort of thing mature democratic parties should be throwing around. I dunno, maybe it comes across better in German?

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TAlfing of, who are NEOS supporting? Also are the Communists/far left bothering or are they just supporting VdB?

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If Hofer wins, do you think Austria will have the rebuke from the EU (like when the FPO were in government last?)

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If Hofer loses on postals I can't imagine how many conspiracies theories will be launched on the right.

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Looks like the fix is in.

 Chemtrails, I assume.

Good job illuminati!

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Btw it's kind of odd that news was warning Hofer would be the first nasty fascist to come to power since the war. I mean have they forgotten the time Austrians elected a literal nazi war criminal as president lol?

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VdB already gave a speech outdoor, somewhere in Vienna:

Obama?

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Non natives a treat to jews???

Toulouse? Brussels? Copenhagen? Hypercacher? Ilan Halimi? And then all these "small", "insignificant" acts of violence and threats that go unnoticed for the general public.

Toulouse? You mean Mohammed Merah?
It happened in 2012 much before the refugee crisis. And Mohammed Merah wasn't even a refugee. He was french.
And regarding Bruxelles, same thing, it has been perpetuated by people born in Belgium, not by Syrian refugees.

Interesting to read from someone across the ocean that knows better wat is going on here. Have you been to some area's in European city's? Did you to Amsterdam? To the Molenwijk in Bruxelles? Or did you visit Kanaleneiland in Utrecht?

These problems are real. Jewish schools in Amsterdam are sometimes having trouble securing their pupils. That's why these so-called right-wing-populists parties are on the rise. They understand these problems, start to discuss them and are offering solutions. Well, we can discuss wich solution is better, but you cannot deny these problems. They are real and with all the refugees coming things arent getting any better.

I have pretty reliable Intel that suggests windjammer often is in areas of Europe. One piece of evidence is that he is French. Another is that he lives in France.

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Anyway moving on, shall we talk about the truly important aspect of this election? Namely LOOOOOOOOOOOL SPOVP

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When are the next Ostereich elections anyway?

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Is there any chance of early elections due to the departure of Faymann, or will they be held off too see if the FPO surge starts to slither down a bit?

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 I wonder if the relatively large Jewish community in Hungary supports Orban's efforts of not taking any of the migrants, or how the smaller Jewish communities of other eastern European countries feel about their governments being in favor of little or no migrant migration to their countries.

Eastern European Jews have got bigger problems to worry about than the relatively small amount of refugees being housed. They're perfectly able to homegrown anti-Semitism.

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Ahhh, such beautiful maps:

How similar/different is this from a normal 50-50 left-right map?

This is the lady close presidential election in 2004:

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If 16 year olds didn't have the vote would Hofer have won?

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What are the major parties' stance on NATO membership? The FPO leader blamed NATO for the refugee crisis but what about the others?

The OVP are the most in favour - I think they pushed the country to join PfP. During the 90's the FPO was in favour of joining apparently, but no longer. The SPO (due to the Kreisky legacy), Greens and NEOS are against.

In practice though, Austria would be the hardest state European state to get into NATO beyond Switzerland and Russia's puppets.

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I honestly surprised there isn't a stronger movement for Germany itself to pull out. They don't really care about the U.S./Russia conflict at all, the postwar aversion to militarism that is common to the publics (if not the politicians) of the other defeated axis powers and most Germans associate the organisation with the war in Afghanistan.

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Could Hofer replace stache?

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Hilarious. Who knew that an election for head ribbon cutter in Austria could have such twists and turns?

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Weird question: why does Austria use PR and not MMp like Germany?