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

[ApatheticAustrian]

i see a possible potential for a hard-left populist anti-radical-islam anti-corruption candidate, i am just not sure if the timing is going to be enough and he would get enough supporters.

[ApatheticAustrian]

Tender can you clarify what exactly Pilz' idealogy is? Economically to the left of the Green leadership, but more critical of immigration?

pilz is an economically leftish anti-corruption crusader, who is best known for raging against scandals since decades an is the most famous living to-go-guy for whistleblowers in this country.

at the same time he is not sharing the kind of blind spots some lefties have re: more radical islam and hyper-nationalist turks.

[ApatheticAustrian]

Victim-blaming, taking no responsibility and no, someone who was in this country for 30 years is not a tunisian anymore, this is just a criminal austrian muslim with paranoia and without balls.

[ApatheticAustrian]

Kern's 7 point-plan also underlines the need to secure human rights inside of the EU....which sets him on a totally different path than Kurz, who always signaled that he could care less about the slow deconstruction of democratic standards in Hungary/Poland.

We got a real choice this time.

[ApatheticAustrian]

I am not really convinced.

This was a personal killing and the guy went to the police himself.

Radicalized for sure, stupid af for sure - but this would be the exception of all the IS murders.

[ApatheticAustrian]

if ovp-fpo coalition is realistic, is that mean fpo will betray its voters after election or austria really going in "far right" direction? also what are the odds of kpo-young greens?

do you mean far-right western-european style, far-right eastern-european style or something else?

at best this will be visengrad - lite.

[ApatheticAustrian]

well at least trump style...

not very likely.

the fpö would be the declining junior partner of a all-powerful neo-conservative strongman.

kurz won't fight against the media or say stupid stuff.

[ApatheticAustrian]

who got kicked out by the Greens because he wasn't "immigration-friendly" enough for them

this is not correct.

he may have lost his seat for being judges as a troublemaker by the party elite but he didn't lose his party membership cause of this.

[ApatheticAustrian]

the police union pushes back against the fpö-criticism and states haimbuchner - local fpö chief and vice governor of upper austria - should stop making overhasty statements.

[ApatheticAustrian]

i think he would have needed dönmez.

it's kind of frustrating for me that a talented leftie as dönmez would work with kurz just to secure a safe seat and enrage his old party.