AFP: Austrian government in shock as far-right triumps
Vienna (AFP) - Austria's government was licking its wounds Monday after a historic debacle that saw the opposition anti-immigrant far-right triumph in a presidential ballot two years before the next scheduled general election.
According to preliminary results, Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party (FPOe) came a clear first with 36 percent of the vote, while candidates from the two governing parties failed to even make it into a runoff on May 22.
The result means that for the first time since 1945, Austria will not have a president backed by either Chancellor Werner Faymann's Social Democrats (SPOe) or their centre-right coalition partners the People's Party (OeVP).
"This is the beginning of a new political era," FPOe leader Heinz-Christian Strache said after what constituted the best-ever result at federal level for the former party of the late Joerg Haider, calling it a "historic result".
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More News On The Austrian Election
Austrian Presidential Vote Gives Edge to Right-Wing Candidate -- NYT
Austrian law-and-order presidential candidate wins 1st round -- AP
Austria far right freezes out coalition in presidency race -- Reuters
Austria election: Far-right tops first round of presidential vote -- BBC
Anti-immigrant candidate wins first round of Austria election -- USA Today
Austria's Right-Wing Freedom Party Tops Presidential First Round -- Bloomberg
Austrian Voters Deal Blow to Mainstream Parties in Election -- WSJ
Gun-Toting Immigration Foe Wins Austrian Presidential Vote -- Daily Caller
3 comments:
Editor,
A tip for you if you have not seen it already.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Aji4p34wttA
I wish we swedes could be as tough as the austrians.
Another step in the dissolution of EU.
The moderate parties bring economic crisis, one following the neoliberism ideology (the moderate right) and one corrupted by that (the moderate left) then, inside this crisis, without the willing to really change the assumptions that cause the crisis in equal manner, but continuing to reduce social protections for private interests (and for the more weak nations are often foreign private interests), each nation and government start to think on themselves against the others. Wars in the third world (and refugees) and change in the nations balance of power is part of this process.
So the rise of xenophobic nationalism, that confirm the fail of the system.
But in the end is the egoism of the nations and of the elites inside and outside them that demolish democracy and humanity.
With all my hopes, we are in crucial years.
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