Posted on 04/24/2016 3:38:38 PM PDT by Mariner
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".
The centre-right OeVP's candidate Andreas Khol came equal fourth with 11 percent, level with the SPOe's Rudolf Hundstorfer.
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By “far right” of course they mean sane, rational, thinking people.
Anti-Jihad may have been a better choice of words, but considering the “immigrants” are almost entirely Islamic, I would be anti-immigrant as well.
you are quite right.
There are European political parties chanting “Trump! Trump! Trump!” at rallies.
Had no idea!
Yup, it’s despicable the way the left has gotten away with branding Fascism as right-wing. The translation of Nazi is perfectly clear it is leftist.
I obviously don’t get Eurpoean politics but I’ve been reading articles for over a decade which play out like this: “The government is reeling from a stinging rebuke where far right candidates swept the slate...” and yet here we stand with the same buch of center-left or leftists in charge everywhere in Europe. So color me “unconvinced” that this means anything.
Even scenes like these will not dissuade the West from bringing muzzies into their countries.
Thanks for the note of agreement.
“:^)
They should have printed the ballots in Austrian...
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Good one!
Its interesting how Stalinists coined the term “far right” to describe the competing Socialists of Germany who were kicking their own Socialist society.
Nazism, Marxism, Fascism, etc. all same extreme end of the government paradigm. With Big central controlled governments at one end and self-governing individuals at the other end. The former always gains power in a democracy with Socialism, aka buying support with funds from the public treasury.
If you are anti-big government police states you are far right.
“Well, says the Small Arms Survey, a research outfit established by the Swiss government, the United Kingdom, with just shy of 1.8 million legal firearms, has about four million illegal guns. Belgium, with about 458,000 legal firearms, has roughly two million illegal guns. In Germany, the number is 7.2 million legal guns and between 17 and 20 million off-the-books examples of things that go “bang” (a figure with which the German Police Union very publicly agrees). France, says the Survey, has 15-17 million unlawful firearms in a nation where 2.8 million weapons are held in compliance with the law.”
http://reason.com/archives/2012/12/22/gun-restrictions-have-always-bred-defian
The Hammer will not fall on a disarmed population it seems even in supposedly disarmed populations...
Anyone to the right of Lenin is the Far Right in euro-weenie politics these days.
The "mainstream" parties will tell all the people that would have voted for them, to instead vote for the Green party, rather than have the "far right" party win. The media will spread that message. The European Establishment will try to stop the outsiders by any means necessary.
Exactly, it’s not far right at all, I hate the media. Good for Austria, now let’s do the same only before it gets bad here.
Hitler was a Socialist
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/08/this-article-is-published-on-internet.html
Hitler was a pretty mainstream leftist for his time.
Right...and the first chance the Brits got, they dispatched him after he saved their sorry a$$E$. F-'em...they deserve to be oppressed by the mullahs.
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