Austrian Elections & Politics 4.0

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Dear god, I hate Kurz and I hate Strache

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The ÖVP/FPÖ-government has decided to raise* (I repeat: RAISE) the annual quota for non-EU immigrants + quota for family reunions + seasonal workers this year:

http://derstandard.at/2000071908843/Regierung-erhoeht-Quote-fuer-Zuwanderer-aus-Nicht-EU-Ausland

Initiated by Herbert Kickl, the FPÖ Interior Minister, who the international media called the "most extreme hardliner" in the cabinet ...

* by 320 persons.

Why?

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Why is the FPÖ losing ground?

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I mean, the FPÖ was founded by neonazis. What were you expecting?

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Slight correction:

I mean, the FPÖ was founded by neoNazis. What were you expecting?

Hahahahaha fair point

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Wait,
Why are you saying the SPDisation of the FPO?
I mean, they literally the worst candidate ever and they still increased their score

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SORA's election day survey:

http://www.sora.at/fileadmin/downloads/wahlen/2018_LTW-Tir_Wahlanalyse-Grafiken.pdf

And this piece is particularly interesting:



Men without a university-qualifying high-school degree: 14% SPÖ+Greens+NEOS, 30% FPÖ

Women with a university-qualifying high-school degree: 68% SPÖ+Greens+NEOS, 1% FPÖ

Woooow, the FPO is dead long term.

The olds are extremely FPO?

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How are they achieving? By cutting spending or by GDP growth?

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Is a FPO minority government possible?

I mean, in that scenario the oppositio would never have the 51% vote to topple them anyway.

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Why is Strache so unpopular compared to his FPO colleagues?

Maybe because he's more well-known ?

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New general election poll for "Heute" newspaper (n=800, phone+online, Sept. 3-6):

33% ÖVP
29% SPÖ
23% FPÖ
  7% NEOS
  5% Greens
  2% LiPi
  1% Others

ÖVP-FPÖ government approval rating:

49% approve (-9)
45% disapprove (+9)

ÖVP-voters approve by 89-9 and FPÖ-voters by 77-19. SPÖ-voters disapprove by 82-18.

"In which of these daily situations is the Muslim headscarf annoying to you ?"

57-37 annoying - in kindergarten, school, university

47-49 not annoying - in hospitals, at the doctor
42-54 not annoying - at the supermarket
40-56 not annoying - on the street, in public

"ÖVP-FPÖ recently presented tougher minimum penalties without the possibility of parole for convicted rapists. Do you support these changes to the criminal law ?"

90-6 support

ÖVP-voters: 95-4 support
FPÖ-voters: 97-1 support
SPÖ-voters: 91-6 support

http://www.heute.at/asset/original/d/c/d/dcd2d200a26df6bb567cfc1502801085.pdf

I wouldn't be surprised if FPO continues to go down a bit, with OVP and SPO continuing to rise.

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Susanne Wiesinger, a teacher for more than 30 years in Vienna, lifetime SPÖ-member and SPÖ teacher union representative, has come out with a 220-page book recently called "Culture wars in our classrooms: How radical Islam is changing our schools. Report from a teacher."

It should be noted that Wiesinger is teacher in one of some 150 Austrian so-called "hot-spot" schools, most of them in Vienna, which have a huge amount of children with migrant background. In Wiesinger's school, some 80% of kids are of Muslim origin, are recently arrived and mostly come from very conservative families. The other 20% are Austrian kids, but also often from a lower middle-class background.

She decided to "speak out" after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in 2015, which was when some of her (elementary and middle) school students glorified the attackers - which was a turning point for her and her long-standing liberal world view.



She also said that when she started as a teacher in Vienna over 30 years ago, the schools were mostly with Austrian kids and classes were going fine. Now, there are culture "wars" in classrooms and as one example she pointed to a young Muslim school girl who went to class once with a dotted colourful dress. Some other small Muslim boys harassed the girl and cut her dress because they found it "un-Islamic". Wiesinger found the girl crying in the toilet. She also said that while 30 years ago teachers were still teachers, now teachers in Vienna are mostly social workers who have to avoid religious and cultural "warfare" in classrooms. The children are the ones losing out because of that situation.

The whole interview yesterday with her was amazing. What a courageous woman. She's now an outcast in the SPÖ for speaking out (what everyone already knows) and calls herself a "homeless leftist" (like myself, btw).

https://www.addendum.org/schule/kinder-verloren

PS: she's not out "for the money", because the book earnings will go into a charity for integration efforts.

Does she propose anything to deal with that?

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Until October 15, all EU-member countries will have to notify the EU Commission about their updated budget/debt data for 2018 and for 2019.

Austria will send a balanced budget for 2018 to Brussels (for the first time in over 50 years) and projects a 0.1% surplus for 2019.

Finance Minister Löger (ÖVP) and Chancellor Kurz (ÖVP) today: "The time of burdening future generations with debt is now over."

https://kurier.at/politik/inland/bessere-zahlen-als-erwartet-mini-ueberschuss-2019/400138505

When do you expect Austria to have its debt under 60% of the GDP?