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

[Lord Halifax]

   Whats frustrating about this is that Kurz seemed pleased with the overall government performance of the OVP FPO coalition, and the collapse was not brought about by unbridgeable differences but rather Strache's stupidity.
    In the coming campaign Kurz will likely defend his record as chancellor, but that record is inextricably tied to the FPO, so the more he praises it, the more he also indirectly praises the FPO to an extent anyway. 
     Under Hofer I would think the FPO would have a good chance of alot of damage control, as he strikes me as one of their more stable leaders. Just how many FPO voters will desert the party? and vote for who, the OVP which just ended the coalition?
    Oh, and what about the direct democracy proposal? Did that ever make it through parliament?

ÖVP-FPÖ only wanted to pass this in parliament at the end of their term, in 2022, according to their coalition contract.

All of this is meaningless now, because ÖVP-NEOS-Greens will likely shelf it (because of the Greens and the ÖVP was also not really a big fan of it either).

Why are the Greens against direct democracy?

[Lord Halifax]

Tender if you had to guess what percentage of the vote would you expect each party to end up with?

[Lord Halifax]

When do we get the final results?

[Lord Halifax]

Greens+NEOS+Pilz are doing much better with postal voters (as usual).

Do you think Pilz will pass 2%?