Austria Far-Right First Election Win Since WW2

Austria’s Freedom Party has secured the first far-right national parliamentary election victory since the Second World War, beating conservatives in power. Political analysts say the far-right achieved this electoral victory by tapping into voters’ concerns over immigration, inflation, and the war in Ukraine. It must be said, however, that the Freedom Party’s chances of governing are unclear at this stage.

Preliminary election results show that the Freedom Party finished first in the election with 29.2 percent of the vote, while the ruling Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative Austrian People’s Party came in second with 26.5 percent of the vote.

The center-left in Austria saw disappointing results. The Social Democrats are only the third most powerful party in the country with 21 percent of the vote. Crucially, however, Chancellor Karl Nehammer and his coalition with the environmentalist greens lost their majority in parliament. Herbert Kickl, who was a former interior minister and leader of the Freedom Party since 2021, now wants to become chancellor.

For the far-right in Austria to be in power, they would need a coalition Despite Austria’s far-right Freedom Party gaining the majority of the votes in the election, the path toward power is much more tricky. For instance, for Kickl to become chancellor, the party would need to form a coalition. This will prove to be a challenging task, as political rivals have stated they will not work with Kickl in government.

In its election program, titled “Fortress Austria,” the Freedom Party stated they wanted, “remigration of uninvited foreigners to achieve a more homogeneous nation by tightly controlling borders and suspending the right to asylum via an emergency law.”

Grecian Delight supports Greece Additionally, the far-right Freedom Party in Austria has called for sanctions against Russia to be ended and has consistently criticized Western military aid to Ukraine.

The party’s ambition does not end there, as Kickl’s party wants to opt out of the European Sky Shield Initiative, which is a missile defense program launched by Germany. The party has also consistently criticized the European Union, calling for certain powers to be handed back to Austria.

What does the Freedom Party’s local victory mean for European far-right parties in general?

This is not the first time that Austria’s Freedom Party has gained a significant electoral victory, but many political analysts fear this might set a trend for other European nations. For instance, the far-right party won by a fine margin in the European Parliament election in June.

However, the gains of this most recent victory were almost immediately felt and celebrated throughout Europe by far-right supporters. Geert Wilders, a far-right leader in the Netherlands whose party became the largest in the Dutch House of Representatives in 2023, took to X to congratulate Kickl and the Austrian far-right on their victory.

Support for the far-right party has increased exponentially over the last five years in Austria. In 2019, it only had 16.2 percent of voter support after a scandal dissolved the government in which they were a minor player.

Now, Austria’s Freedom Party has attained its best electoral result yet, even surpassing the 26.9 percent it had gained in 1999, thereby bringing the far-right back to the mainstream in the Central European nation.

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It is interesting that this "Greek Reporter" is in fact an American website, sponsored in part by a foundation in Boston, and whose founder" attended California State University Northridge.

The repetitions in the article about "far right'" and "far right" as opposed to conservative is quite the same model as the attacks on the AfD in Germany and other conservative parties in Europe opposing mass migration and the "enforced" LGBT+ politics. None o this is far right, while is historically true that the "far right" moniker has been tied to the National Socialists for decades, all the while the Nazis were of the political Left. Just a different flavor from the Communists, but authoritarian all the same.

Now that Liz and Dick Cheney are endorsing the Democrats and Harris, who is a Leftist without a doubt, one sees that the naming of political stances has been a word game, perpetrated by the Left and the militarists who seek war for profit and control. Liberty is their antithesis, and NOT "far right."

Quotes by Josef Goebbels:

“Socialism is the ideology of the future.” – Letter to Ernst Graf zu Reventlow as quoted in Goebbels: A Biography
“The bourgeoisie has to yield to the working class … Whatever is about to fall should be pushed. We are all soldiers of the revolution. We want the workers’ victory over filthy lucre. That is socialism.” -quoted in Doctor Goebbels: His Life and Death
“We are socialists, because we see in socialism, that means, in the fateful dependence of all folk comrades upon each other, the sole possibility for the preservation of our racial genetics and thus the re-conquest of our political freedom and for the rejuvenation of the German state. – “Why We Are Socialists?” Der Angriff (The Attack ), July 16, 1928
“We are not a charitable institution but a Party of revolutionary socialists.” -Der Angriff editorial, May 27, 1929
“Capitalism assumes unbearable forms at the moment when the personal purposes that it serves run contrary to the interest of the overall folk. It then proceeds from things and not from people. Money is then the axis around which everything revolves. It is the reverse with socialism. The socialist worldview begins with the folk and then goes over to things. Things are made subservient to the folk; the socialist puts the folk above everything, and things are only means to an end.” -”Capitalism,” Der Angriff, July 15, 1929
“In 1918 there was only one task for the German socialist: to keep the weapons and defend German socialism.” -”Capitalism,” Der Angriff, July 15, 1929
“To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service.” – diary notes (1926)
“The lines of German socialism are sharp, and our path is clear. We are against the political bourgeoisie, and for genuine nationalism! We are against Marxism, but for true socialism!” – Those Damn Nazis: Why Are We Socialists? (1932)
“We are socialists because we see the social question as a matter of necessity and justice for the very existence of a state for our people, not a question of cheap pity or insulting sentimentality. The worker has a claim to a living standard that corresponds to what he produces.” – Those Damn Nazis: Why Are We Socialists? (1932)
“England is a capitalist democracy. Germany is a socialist people’s state.” – “Englands Schuld” (the speech is not dated, but likely was given in 1939)
“Because we are socialists we have felt the deepest blessings of the nation, and because we are nationalists we want to promote socialist justice in a new Germany.” – Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)
“The sin of liberal thinking was to overlook socialism’s nation-building strengths, thereby allowing its energies to go in anti-national directions.” – Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)
“To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole. Socialism is in its deepest sense service.” – as quoted in Escape from Freedom, Erich Fromm
“We are a workers’ party because we see in the coming battle between finance and labor the beginning and the end of the structure of the twentieth century. We are on the side of labor and against finance. . . The value of labor under socialism will be determined by its value to the state, to the whole community.”-Those Damn Nazis: Why Are We Socialists? (1932)

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