Posted on 05/23/2016 8:27:34 AM PDT by Truth29
Mr Hofer led narrowly after Sunday's election but postal votes gave Mr Van der Bellen victory by 50.3% to 49.7%. Mr Van der Bellen campaigned on a pro-EU platform, backed by the Green Party. Mr Hofer, of the Freedom Party, tapped into anti-EU sentiment and fears about rising numbers of asylum seekers. He conceded victory on his Facebook page. Mr Hofer said it was a sad day and that he would have gladly served as president.
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The Greens in Europe are now the shariah-law party. Not good for Austria.
What a surprise, the left finds just enough absentee ballots to pull off the win, must have taken lessons from the Chicago machine... However my friends from that part of the world say that the Austrian president is little more than a ceremonial post anyway without any real power and the big test will be next year when parliamentary elections take place
I see they have voter fraud in Europe too.
I wonder if vote fraud is a problem in Austria or Europe in general. The EU believers are so hell bent on keeping nations within the EU it wouldn’t surprise me. They always seem to win these elections no matter how close they are.
What you can expect for the next six years....a very marginally accepted government. Frustration will brew over every incident involving an immigrant and every change that the Green Party will try to implement. It really isn’t over....it just goes to the next round.
Less work than a road ‘accident’.
Haider, simply had to go...
This should have been a tremendous slap at the bureaucrat tyranny in Brussels and might have been a needed boost to the Brexit cause.
Instead, after they kept counting the postal ballots until they got the result they wanted, the close result will not be a message heeded by the EU technocrats. Their soft tyranny will march on, and their jailing of those who question their efforts to dissolve and elect a new musloid electorate.
Tragic for Europe, and Austria.
Are the Illegal Muslim Refugees getting Motor Voter Forms when they get their Driver’s Licenses? It works in CA.
But somehow Ted Cruz still won all the Austrian delegates.
The Left always seems to be the winner, whenever the voting is close.
Obama sent a congratulatory telegram written in Austrian.
Must be union voters protecting their jobs combined with immigrant and Muslim votes.
If they steal and cheat - they win.
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