Austrian Elections & Politics 5.0 (Burgenland state election - January 26)

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I went through the bios of a lot of candidates and it seems Austrians don’t care much for formal education. Why is that? Austrian politicians have a really subpar bio when it comes to academic qualifications

[Hnv1]

I went through the bios of a lot of candidates and it seems Austrians don’t care much for formal education. Why is that? Austrian politicians have a really subpar bio when it comes to academic qualifications

Why should it matter that major politicians have an academic degree ? You don't need that to lead a country in a proper manner. A high school degree is certainly enough. You only need to have street smarts. Most of the real work is done by their aides anyway in the background (and most of them have an academic degree). A lot of people with a higher degree are mostly smug anyway and have no connection to ordinary working people (see the douche Macron).

Well I think a leader needs some pedigree of knowledge of the world that exceeds that gained by a high school degree or a degree in communications from some poor university. Having a president who went to Penn State or a PM that went to the university of East Angllia will be a bit more than a trivia fact. Yale law school or oxford PPE programs are also pretty much set on qualifying future politicians.

But Germany is also similar in that matter so I guess it’s a cultural thing

[Hnv1]

Another election tool with 34 questions in English:

https://www.voteswiper.org/en/austria/2019-austrian-legislative-election

I got KPÖ, followed by Change, followed by the Greens.

NEOS last.

I got FPÖ followed by ÖVP. Surprised as I would have voted for the NEOS who I got almost at the bottom

[Hnv1]

OVP-NEOS is an excellent coalition. great results today, well done Austria

[Hnv1]

They finished counting:

https://wahl19.bmi.gv.at

Impressive results for Kurz. Is there no option for him to pull some FPÖ delegates and increment the ÖVP? Is floor crossing even done in Austrian politics?

[Hnv1]

Austrian GDP will grow by 1.6% this year and 1.4% next year - according to new forecasts by the main domestic economic institutes (WIFO/IHS) today. That is much better than Germany this year (0.4%) or Italy (recessionist).

Unemployment will remain at 4.4% and there will be a budget surplus of 0.6% this year and 0.4% next year. Inflation is low at 1.6% and debt as a percentage of GDP will decline from 69% to 65% next year (down from the all-time-high of 87% in 2016).

65% debt would be back to pre-financial-crisis-levels (2007).

https://orf.at/stories/3139702

That's all around decent economic figure, did the right coalition had any major reforms the past two years to drive economy forward?