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

[Simfan34]

Freda Meissner-Blau, pioneer & founding mother of the Austrian ecologic movement and Green Party and leading activist for Green causes such as successful protests against the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant and Hainburg has died. She was 88 years old.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freda_Meissner-Blau

RIP.

HP

[Simfan34]

Well, another argument for the Dutch monarchy

Bring back the Habsburgs?   

[Simfan34]

Hofer's latest newspaper ad was quite hilarious:



The word "erhalten" has 2 very different meanings in German:

"Only he wants to preserve the cash/paper money."

or

"Only he wants to receive the cash/paper money."

Why would paper money need preserving? Is Austria considering abandoning paper money, as Norway has been talking about doing?

[Simfan34]

2 new polls:

Gallup for Ö24 newspaper



Unique Research for Profil magazine

33% FPÖ
26% SPÖ
20% ÖVP
13% Greens
  7% NEOS
  1% Others

Also:

78% say they are "certain" to vote in the December 4 presidential re-vote and 76% also say that the election will finally be held in a proper way without problems.

Red-black-green coalition?

[Simfan34]

Has the cordon sanitaire been lifted? Is the ÖVP no longer traumatized by the last time there was a FPÖVP coalition?

Would the EU sanction Austria again in such a case? I doubt it, but I find the idea of sanctioning one of your own members for having the wrong election outcome hard to believe in the first place. What were these sanctions, anyway?

[Simfan34]

Congratulations Herbert Nofer.

[Simfan34]

Congratulations  Herbert Nofer.

Why ?

Well, he's certainly going to win now.