Commenter Franz on the Austrian Election

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This was submitted as a comment, but I thought it was of sufficient interest to make a blog item.

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Now a “coalition of losers” wants to govern Austria

Following the FPÖ’s election triumph in Austria, the big losers ÖVP and SPÖ want to prevent the winner from joining the government and form a coalition. This could work with a surprise in the distribution of seats.

According to the provisional final results, the FPÖ won the National Council elections in Austria with a historic result of 29.1 percent (+13.0 points). It came first for the first time. The ÖVP, which previously governed with the Greens, lost 11.0 points, more than ever before, and came second with 26.5 percent. With the worst result in its history, the SPÖ slipped to 21.1% (- 0.1 points) and third place for the first time.

The Greens lost 5.9 points and only achieved 8.0%. They thus fell behind the left-liberal Neos, which gained 0.9 points to 9.0%.

The other parties rejected cooperation with the FPÖ and its top candidate Herbert Kickl on election night. Instead, a coalition of losers is now emerging. The ÖVP and SPÖ together only achieved 47.6 percent.

SPÖ and ÖVP have more seats

However, this is enough for an absolute majority of seats in the Vienna National Council. Despite losing exactly 0.13 points and thanks to gains by parties not represented in parliament, the Social Democrats actually won one seat more than four years ago.

Together with the Neos (17 seats), the majority against the election winner would be even clearer. Austrian journalists speak of a “sugar coalition” due to the color combination of turquoise, red and pink. An alliance would also be possible with the Greens, who have shrunk to 15 MPs.

FPÖ leader Kickl: “Is that democracy?”

Kickl expressed his anger at the losers’ will to power on election night: the parties that have ruled out a coalition with the FPÖ – above all the ÖVP and SPÖ – should be asked “what they think about democracy”. He continued: “If historically bad results are achieved, you can’t have done everything right.”

The FPÖ leader emphasized: “Our hand is outstretched in all directions.” What is important now is what Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen (Greens) does and whether he respects the “beauty of the constitution”.

Austria faces tough coalition negotiations

A coalition between the FPÖ and ÖVP, which would have 110 seats, would actually be the easiest option. However, Federal Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) had already ruled this out before the election and confirmed this on the evening of the election. His party would then only be a junior partner. In all other constellations, however, the ÖVP could provide the chancellor. Political observers are expecting tough and protracted coalition negotiations.

Despite the biggest losses in the party’s history, the Christian Democrat Nehammer wants to remain head of government and believes he has received a mandate from the voters to do so. It is also likely that the Federal President will break with the tradition of giving the strongest party the mandate to form a government. Van der Bellen had already announced this approach during the election campaign should the FPÖ come first.

P.S. From last year: Ukraine wants to stop gas transit from 2025

Ukraine will no longer transit Russian natural gas to the west from 2025. This was stated by the head of the Ukrainian state energy company Naftogaz, Olexiy Chernyshov, in an interview with the US foreign broadcaster Radio Liberty. OMV obtains the majority of its gas from Russia – and via Ukraine. In the summer, warnings about this scenario were followed by reassurance.

The transit contract with the Russian company Gasprom expires at the end of 2024. Chernyshov said that Ukraine would also pull out earlier, especially as Gazprom is not paying for the transit as agreed. Austria obtains around two thirds of its gas from Russia and via Ukraine. OMV has a long-term supply contract with Russia until 2040.

Ukraine is already only sticking to transit because several European countries are still dependent on Russian gas, according to Chernyshov. “We also want to be a reliable partner for our European partners, for the countries that need it,” said the CEO.

PS 2: China’s car industry is overrunning the competition in Russia. The withdrawal of Western car manufacturers due to sanctions has left a vacuum in Russia that is now being filled by Chinese suppliers. A return to German brands seems out of the question in view of the competition – even in the long term.
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  3. Hi
    Hi says:

    P.S. Many recommend that Kickl accept Geerd Wilders’ strategy and voluntarily step into the second row, i.e. give up the chancellor’s seat. Then, like Wilders, he could operate from the background and still exert influence. That would be better than going away empty-handed. But is that even conceivable? Signals are said to have been sent by the ÖVP.

  4. Frank
    Frank says:

    The whiny Yankee “CJ Hopkins” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJ_Hopkins suffers from a kind of Nazi Tourette’s. “Nazi is the absolutely evil” in his malprogramed mind. So his problem is not that he demonizes National Socialism because he’s a brainwashed idiot, but that he dubs those who, like him, criminalize anything German as “Nazi”. He better should thank his own countrymen (and their Jewish string-pullers) for their sustained “denazification” of the Germans for this absurd nonsense. https://off-guardian.org/2024/10/01/guilty/

    https://de.zxc.wiki/wiki/Gesetz_zum_Schutze_der_nationalen_Symbole

  5. Werner
    Werner says:

    https://rmx.news/article/shock-germanys-green-party-agricultural-minister-says-his-daughter-is-sexually-harassed-by-men-with-a-migrant-background/

    Open letter to Green Party politician

    “Unlike your daughter, dear Mr. Özdemir, our daughter no longer comes home!”

    Green politician Özdemir calls for a rethink of migration policy because his daughter is being molested. Now the father of the girl who was slaughtered by a migrant on the train to Brokstedt responds to him. He remembers 300 murdered children. The JF documents the moving letter.

    Michael Kyrath has written a moving open letter in memory of the victims of migration policy. He was responding to a guest article by Cem Özdemir in the FAZ. In it, the Green politician had called for a change in migration policy. This was triggered by fears for his daughter, who is apparently often sexually harassed by migrants.

    She will graduate from high school next year and is likely to be around the same age as Ann-Marie Kyrath was when she was slaughtered in Brokstedt in January 2023 by a violent asylum seeker with multiple criminal convictions who had been rejected but not deported.

    Her 19-year-old boyfriend Danny died with her. Both were on their way home from school by train. The forensic experts later counted 38 stab wounds. “Two young people who had their whole lives ahead of them,” writes Michael Kyrath, the father.

    He recalls that he and his wife were “told that we should make sure that the murder of our daughter is not misused by right-wing extremists. What the minister is now demanding would have been considered “right-wing extremist and indisputable” a short time ago. Unlike Özdemir’s daughter, Ann-Marie will never come home again.

    The moving letter to Özdemir:

    Dear Mr. Özdemir,

    Every person is the product of their environment. The experiences of the years teach us to question our views through events.

    It looks as if you, Mr. Özdemir, Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture, have just had this experience. In a guest article for the FAZ, you suddenly call for an energetic turnaround in migration policy. Apparently there is something to the saying “With age comes wisdom”.

    Not long ago, such demands would have been right-wing extremist in your eyes and therefore out of the question. But as soon as it hits you yourself, after your daughter has been molested, your opinion turns a full 180 degrees. Welcome to the real world of normal citizens, Mr. Minister!

    What entitles me to write you such lines?

    My name is Michael Kyrath. I am the father of 17-year-old Ann-Marie, who was murdered in Brokstedt on January 25, 2023. Alongside my daughter, her 19-year-old boyfriend Danny also died that day after a rejected “stateless” Palestinian with multiple criminal convictions stabbed them both 38 times on a local train.

    Unlike your daughter, dear Mr. Özdemir, our daughter no longer comes home! Nor have any of your party friends exposed themselves in our case in the way you are now doing for your daughter.

    On the contrary! We have been told that we should make sure that the murder of our daughter is not misused by right-wing extremists! We were told by one of your coalition partners that he was sorry that “these people” had lost their lives.

    These “people” were our children, Ann-Marie and Danny! Teenagers aged 17 and 19 who were on their way home from school. Two young people who had their whole lives ahead of them.

    Can you imagine what such an act does to the bereaved? With us as parents? With the grandparents, classmates, teachers, friends, neighbors?

    We will never celebrate our children’s graduation! We will never congratulate them on completing their vocational training or studies! We will never attend their weddings, and we will never welcome our own grandchildren. We will never again be allowed to hug our children and tell them that we love them!

    I have been contacted by over 300 couples who have lost their children in the last five years.

    What unites us all are five key points:

    1. Always the same offender profile
    2. Always the same instrument of crime
    3. Always the same motives
    4. Always almost the same course of events and
    5. Always the same phrases from the politicians responsible after such a crime!

    After the murders of our children we were told that they were “regrettable individual cases” and that one could never guarantee one hundred percent security. And that we should not generalize and thus play into the hands of the right-wing extremists. And that we would try to take tough action against such perpetrators. Nothing more has happened in recent years.

    “Only” around 300 parents had the courage to contact me and tell me about this dark chapter in their lives. How high is the number of unreported cases of those who did not have the courage?

    We were all just “isolated cases”, insignificant, uncomfortable, unpleasant.

    Over 300 murdered children and no outcry from the politicians responsible, not even from you, Mr. Özdemir! And now you are speaking out. Now it suddenly affects you personally because it’s about your daughter. If you had come to this realization earlier and done something about it, many of our children could still be alive.

    May you never have to go through such an experience!

    Yours sincerely

    Michael Kyrath, Elmshorn

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Brokstedt_stabbing

  6. Karl
    Karl says:

    https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/german-foreign-minister-censor-social-media-to-protect-democracy/

    The certified trampoline hopper and pampered entrepre-
    neur’s daughter has done another 360-degree turnaround.
    Democracy, according to Dummchen Leni, is therefore the
    ban on democracy. Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it! Das rite!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qNiVl80j8Q
    https://www.dict.cc/?s=Dummchen

    When women start to “think”, the result is something like this. “Neo-Nazism” is at least as dangerous as bombing Gaza. Evil white colonialists were just as bad. That’s why the author, who comes from Australia, exists. Otherwise she would definitely have been born in Kenya.

    https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/09/30/good-westerners-dont-start-off-hating-israel-but-truth-eventually-leads-them-there/

    https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Caitlin_Johnstone

    …”Green miracles” (chapter 8472829).
    Today: “the floating solar power plant”
    https://media.gettr.com/group7/getter/2024/10/01/14/1a47bb24-d404-16d3-d98c-ab9a0fd7c2b7/out.mp4

  8. jbp
    jbp says:

    How does it work that Ukraine is getting Russian gas? Does russia promise not to use that money in the war? Does Ukraine promise not to let the gas be used to cook food for anti-russian soldiers? What is missing here? Besides my brains.

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