RexImperator said:This wasn't for President (a largely ceremonial post) but Parliamentary elections, so he will likely end up as Chancellor assuming a coalition of the conservatives with the "far" right.
Handsome Creepy Eel said:How do we know this guy isn't a cuck traitor like Alexis Tsipras? Anyone can talk a big game.
The Chancellorship is more important than the Presidency.I'll take what I can get at this point with western Europe.
redpillage said:I think the biggest success of this election has been the complete and utter demise of the Green party:
A drop from 11.8% to 3.3% has sent a very clear message. There's a pretty good chance that Kurz will form a coalition with Strache's FPÖ, thus relegating the previously ruling SPÖ to minority opposition status. It was about damn time.
Very encouraging this outcome and it's quite possible that Austria will now actively engage and collaborate with the Visegrad 4 group, therefore strengthening the current geographical bulwark against illegal immigration.
Glaucon said:redpillage said:I think the biggest success of this election has been the complete and utter demise of the Green party:
A drop from 11.8% to 3.3% has sent a very clear message. There's a pretty good chance that Kurz will form a coalition with Strache's FPÖ, thus relegating the previously ruling SPÖ to minority opposition status. It was about damn time.
Very encouraging this outcome and it's quite possible that Austria will now actively engage and collaborate with the Visegrad 4 group, therefore strengthening the current geographical bulwark against illegal immigration.
That 5 countries collaborated for at least a millennia before. Things indeed never change.... I dare to say Hungary was better of when it was under the Austrian monarchy. We Hungarians have huge issues with self governance, our history shows it.
The promised rise of nationalism
It is here. It is now. You may recall that I was one of the very few observers of European politics who predicted this years ago. I said it would take two election cycles for the nationalists to come fully to power. We're still in the first one.
"In a recent poll by the Czech Academy of Sciences, the ANO scored 30.9 percent, more than the two traditional heavyweights in Czech politics -- the Social Democrat CSSD and the right-wing ODS -- combined, who scored just 13.1 percent and 9.1 percent respectively.
The takeover of the OeVP in May by "Emperor Kurz" was as swift as it was radical. First he ended the decade-long unhappy coalition with the Social Democrats (SPOe). Then he rebranded the OeVP and its black party colour as a turquoise "movement" tough on migrants and easy on taxes. The strategy of "putting Austrians first" propelled the sluggish OeVP to pole position in opinion polls and Kurz to near-rock star status.
The People’s Party (OVP) got 31.6 per cent of the vote, according to exit polls from pollster SORA. Mr Kurz's party is tough on migration, easy on taxes and widely Eurosceptic after rebranding itself over the last few months to propel its popularity in the wealthy Alpine nation. The 31-year-old is expected to form a coalition with the right-wing populist Freedom Party (FPO), who got 26.9 per cent of the vote, according to the latest projections."
Of course, as with Brexit, the nationalists still have to deliver and free their nations from both the migrant invasions and the chains of the European Union. But be that as it may, it is clear that they have the democratic mandate of their nations, as well as the duty, to do so.
Super_Fire said:And they're already trying to call him a Nazi and Literally Hitler:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/...-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region
In Election, Austria’s Nazi Past Raises Its Head
by the NYTimes Editorial Board
An anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim party won the Austrian elections on Sunday, and its leader might form a government with a party founded by ex-Nazis.
So much for the hopes of spring that election results in the Netherlands and France hinted that the political tide in Europe had turned away from the far right. Last month, Alternative for Germany became the first far-right party to enter Germany’s Parliament since World War II, winning 13 percent of the vote and 94 parliamentary seats.
In Austria, the leader of the victorious People’s Party, Sebastian Kurz, 31, has tried to put a fresh, young face on his stodgy conservative party, changing its traditional black color to a trendy turquoise. But there’s nothing forward-looking about his platform, which taps into the fears that the 90,000 migrants Austria took in from 2015 to 2016 are siphoning away social benefits from hard-working Austrians, and that Muslims pose a cultural and security threat.
And according to preliminary results, the Freedom Party, founded by ex-Nazis in the 1950s, was in a race for second, with about 26 percent of the vote, to the People’s Party’s more than 31 percent. A coalition government of the two parties could be in the cards.
Like right-wing extremists elsewhere in Europe, the Freedom Party enjoys good relations with people close to President Trump. A delegation of Freedom Party leaders attended an election-night party in Trump Tower last November, and a party leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, posted on Facebook that he had met with Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn. And, like other right-wing European parties, it has close ties with President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
This presents a challenge to Mr. Kurz. “We have to establish a new political style in this country,” he told supporters on Sunday, “we have to create a new culture.” But if this is what he really wants to achieve, he must reject the Freedom Party, its ugly past, its unholy relationships with the Kremlin and with the baser impulses of the Trump administration, and form — as he well can — his new government with either the center-left Social Democrats, which received nearly 27 percent of the vote, or in coalition with a group of smaller parties.
Mr. Kurz is staunchly pro-European. Only by rejecting the hatred and divisions of the past can his new government play a constructive role in shaping a future for Austria and for Europe, where nationalist fears must be tackled by addressing citizens’ legitimate concerns about security and economic fairness without ceding ground to xenophobes.