Posted on 12/03/2016 7:40:03 PM PST by Mariner
Vienna (AFP) - Austria's long and ugly presidential campaign drew to a close Saturday, with the far-right aiming to emulate Donald Trump and Brexit campaigners by dealing a hammer-blow to Vienna's centrist establishment.
A victory on Sunday for Norbert Hofer from the anti-immigration and EU-critical Freedom Party (FPOe) would make him Europe's first far-right elected president since World War II.
The presidency is largely ceremonial but it would be another triumph for populist politics a month after Donald Trump's US election victory and barely five months since the British chose to leave the European Union.
The election comes on the same day as a high-stakes referendum in Italy and ahead of elections next year in France, Germany and the Netherlands where anti-mainstream forces are forecast to do well too.
"That a far-right candidate for a party founded partly by Nazis and with a history of anti-Semitism could be so close to power at the heart of Europe is self-evidently troubling," a Financial Times editorial said this week.
"But it should be a wake-up call to mainstream politicians rather than a cause for despair."
One voter, Helwig Leibinger, told AFP at Hofer's final rally in Vienna on Friday that "we hope that Hofer can ensure that our borders remain closed, that we have controls, that we have security.
"We want a commander-in-chief of the armed forces who can give the right orders," he said.
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Not unlike lies told in American elections.
“Centrist”
Center of WHAT?
Sounds like the left is going to lose one again.
They sure know how to pour on the hyperbole. Too bad that doesn't solve real problems.
Take a whiff of reality,we are fed up with the invasion
When Austria started having elections again in 1955 the FPO (Freedom Party) was the third party with the Socialists and the People’s Party (Catholic Party) being the big two.
When WW I ended and Austria had elections before Hitler took over in 1938, the same three forces existed in Austrian politics with the third group being called “German Nationalists” instead of the “Freedom Party”.
When the Nazis organized politically in Austria in the 1930’s they were a faction separate from the Freedom Party’s predecessors, the German Nationalists.
WHAT A Pack Of Lies! NAZIs Were Socialists! They were Left Wingers!
I Get Sick Of This MSM Crap!
“Center of WHAT?”
The Universe, of course.
“When the Nazis organized politically in Austria in the 1930s they were a faction separate from the Freedom Partys predecessors, the German Nationalists.”
Correct. Disproving the lie.
It’s like Republicans claiming Democrats support slavery.
Not relevant to the era.
To Globalists, anyone who opposes them is a “Nazi.”
These days the only financial advice you need is: The stronger the press fake-links the candidate to Hate & Hitler, the more money you should bet online.
They even refer to Israel as nazis. Left wingers are soooo stupid....
When globalists have nothing to argue they start name calling and throw mouth foaming fits.
Center between Stalinist and Marxist.
The FPÖ was founded in 1956 as the successor to the short-lived Federation of Independents (VdU), representing the "Third Camp" of Austrian politics, i. e. pan-Germanists and national liberals opposed to both socialism and Catholic clericalism. The party's first leader was Anton Reinthaller, a former Nazi functionary and SS officer. In the Austrian party system, the FPÖ was from its foundation a third party with only modest support until it entered into government together with the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ), following the 1983 legislative election. In 1979, the party was admitted to the Liberal International. When Jörg Haider was chosen as new FPÖ party leader in 1986, the party started an ideological turn towards right-wing populism. This new political course soon resulted in a strong surge in electoral support, although it also led the SPÖ to break its ties. In 1993, after a controversial proposal on immigration issues, the adherents of a position closer to classical liberalism broke away from the FPÖ and formed the Liberal Forum (LiF). This new party took over the FPÖ's membership in the Liberal International, since the FPÖ considered itself forced to leave.
It sounds like the Nazi was more left leaning, as were the Nazi's actually.
Oh noes! Not an election of hate!?!?
Lies of media,,
My thoughts as well.
What they said about Trump
Sturdee, you are a stooge of the cabal of fascist globalists who want to control the behavior and thoughts of every person in Europe. You obviously do not realize that “far right” is only a pejorative term created by the fascists of the world to denigrate the legitimate political preferences of the majority of patriotic Americans and Europeans. You would have been a good little Butt-boy for Uncle Adolf.
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