Austrian Elections & Politics 3.0 - Parliamentary Election: Oct. 15

[Tender Branson]

On social media, one has noted that Kurz's latest poster campaign ("It is time.") is similar to Orban's poster campaign in the 2010 election:



"Hungary, it is time !"

[Tender Branson]

Another new poll today for "Heute" (Unique Research, August 24-30, n=800, phone+online):

33% ÖVP (changes compared with their May poll: n.c.)
24% SPÖ (-2)
23% FPÖ (-3)
  6% Greens (-2)
  5% NEOS (n.c.)
  5% Pilz (+5)
  2% G!LT (+2)
  2% Others (n.c.)

MoE = +/- 3.5%

http://www.heute.at/asset/original/c/f/e/cfe13c395617ec640e61b729e7ffd2e3.pdf

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

re: the poll...count me as a Social Democrat voter.

[_]

FPO

[mvd10]

ÖVP. The world needs flawless beautiful Sebastian Kurz. I currently support an European superstate because KURZ would win every single election in a landslide and be our President until 2054. Seriously, Kurz would be as old as Trump currently is in 2057. He could still run for elections in the 2050s.

[DavidB.]

FPÖ, but I'm enthusiastic about Kurz too.

[parochial boy]

SPO, Kurz is a snake, who represents much of the worst of modern politics

[Tender Branson]

The FPÖ is currently starting their Vienna campaign, with speeches in a shopping mall (Strache to speak soon):

https://www.facebook.com/HCStrache/videos/vb.74865038590/10155278329188591/?type=3&theater

Btw, this is Strache's campaign bus:

 

Meanwhile, Norbert Hofer is campaigning in Tirol today.

[Tender Branson]

MP Petra Steger is currently introducing Strache, speaking about rapes in Vienna right now.

Petra Steger is the daughter of the liberal former FPÖ-leader Norbert Steger, who got ousted by Jörg Haider in 1986.

[Boomer sooner]

I though the h on that bus was the Hillary logo for a second

[Tender Branson]

Quick, sentimental song about Austria - then Strache speaking.

Steger's speech btw was really motivating ... for FPÖ-voters.

[Tender Branson]

Strache speaking right now:

"We will give you back what SPÖ and ÖVP stole from you over the last 10 years."

[Tender Branson]

Strache:

"The Austrian grandmother who has worked hard for 45 years and paid into the system gets the same minimum pension as a newly arrived illegal immigrant from the Middle East gets in welfare payments. This is not fair. Austria needs fairness. This is where SPÖ and ÖVP have failed. We need to dismantle them on October 15."

[Tender Branson]

Strache:

"The SPÖ is not a labour party anymore. We are."

[Tender Branson]

Strache:

"I'm the most experienced party leader. For 12 years now. I have seen a lot and I am credible. But SPÖ and ÖVP think that they can deceive voters by putting in a new shop-window dummy every few years and then think they represent something new."

[Tender Branson]

Strache:

"SPÖ and ÖVP are like arsonists who set fire to your house. Do you call the arsonists again to extinguish the fire or do you call the firebrigade ? Of course you call the firebrigade !"

[Tender Branson]

Strache just attacked Kurz because about 5 years ago he said:

* Islam belongs to Austria
* Austria needs more of the "welcome culture"
* Many immigrants coming to Austria are smarter than Austrians

... calling him a flip-flopper and a Chinese copying machine.

[Tender Branson]

Strache:

"Let's replace the politicians from SPÖVP, before they replace the Austrian population [... with immigrants]."

[Tender Branson]

Strache:

"Respect to Orban, who had the courage to do the right thing for his people."

[Tender Branson]

Strache:

"If I look into an elementary school or kindergarten in Vienna, there are 50% kids in there already who are Muslims. Some of them wearing headscarves. Financed by abroad, by Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar. No surprise that our future is going down the drain. It's 5 past 12 already and if we do not correct this on October 15, you will also going to suffer for the next 5 years."

[Tender Branson]

My live-report about Strache's speech ends now (he's probably speaking for another hour anyway and I got better things to do).

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Please don't spam my inbox with your "vote in a poll" nonsense. I saw no other choice but vote for FPO.

[TheSaint250]

ÖVP, but, as long as the FPÖ keeps its radical elements shoved away to the fringes of politics, I wouldn't mind them being coalition partners.

EDIT: NEOS also wouldn't be bad.

I guess I'm just against anything to the left of NEOS.

[Tender Branson]

I saw no other choice but vote for FPO.

Bad Kalwejt, bad.

[rob in cal]

   Sounds like Strache wants the Austria of the future to still be a predominately white European, Christian (at least nominally anyway) nation.  He doesn't seem excited about having an ethnic transformation of his country.  Wonder if this will resonate with the electorate.