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

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If NEOS had to choose between the red green alliance and an OVP-FPO coalition, who would they choose?

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Does the FPO have any vulnerability on their right flank, given that they are a governing party now?

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And btw,
is Kurz gay and participates to orgies like Strache claimed?

wha?

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How is the SPO-FPO government in Burgenland and seen these days by the public and the party cadre?

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This is not news.

everything that happens in Austria is news

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I don't think the Identitarians should be shut down, but it's not like you guys were upset when Austria shut several mosques and expelled their imams from the country because of their Islamist leanings.  If Generation Identity is allowed, then it stands to reason so should the ATIB and MB.

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that's the thing: Islamism, Turkish nationalism and neo-Nazis are all cancers but I'm increasingly leaning towards a discomfort towards the use of state power to shut down organizations using legal sophistry. If an organization is directly encouraging and organising violent acts against people it should be shuttered, but I don't think merely holding terrible views is grounds for a legal ban.

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Would the Beer Paryu get a seat in Vienna with those numbers?

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Oh I thought Vienna was all one big constituency, oops.

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Itt NEOS, I always got the impression it was a lot more socially liberal than the very stuffy and businessman run FDP.

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I've never actually tried making these MS Paint style maps before, so this is probably ugly af and I can't guarantee there's no errors, but:



also Al et al must have mastered some dark wizardry to make these things
with hundreds of constituencies, damn

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Why did the Greens do so awfully in 2017 - winning zero seats - and then completely recover in this election?

They had a factional disaster, with their student wing splitting off and causing tremendous embarrassment with their radicalness, a leadership change and finally a big split with the Pilz List.

Partially this was just returning to the norm, but they benefited from the increased attention to climate issues, the successes of thw German Greens and a mediocre SPO campaign.

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Question - do all Turks vote for SPO? Could they ever defect to a DENk style organisation?

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could Strache form his own party?

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Whatever happened to FPO's desire to bring Swiss style direct democracy to the country btw?

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what are the strong NEOS demands?

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Meanwhile, the SPÖ is a total clusterf**k with ongoing internal intrigues like before the election.

Being in a total clusterf**k over internal intrigues is pretty common for European social democratic parties, amrite?

Not sure about other countries, but the image the SPÖ has displayed to voters over the past week has been very troubling, if not worse than what the FPÖ is producing right now with the Strache Facebook shutdown and Philippa's seat.

Labour or Parti Socialiste are particularly notorious for internal infighting and factionalism.

I wonder if that's a consequence of non PR voting - less ideological sorting means broader tents (amongst voters, cadre and elected officials alike) that are trickier to being together. Like as far as I know, there are no Corbyn style backbencers in the SPD lists?