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Latent European ‘Far-Right’ Populist Revolt Marks More Unlikely Territory

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Much to the chagrin of the globalist puppet masters in Brussels — who busied themselves for decades degrading European civilization by subverting national sovereignty in the name of neoliberalism and using their supranational power to import untold millions of “migrants” from the Middle East and Africa — the populist “far-right” pushback has attained another shock victory in, arguably, one of the unlikeliest places.

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Via Express (emphasis added):

The far-Right won the most votes in an Austrian election for the first time since World War Two on Sunday, as the Freedom Party (FPÖ) plans to "open the doors to a new era”…

Herbert Kickl’s party won 29.2% of the vote according to official provisional results - almost three points ahead of the conservative People's Party (ÖVP) on 26.5%.

While the win is clear, it is not enough of a majority, and Kickl will have to form a coalition if he wants to take the country's reins.

The party's triumph is yet another sign of an increasingly Right-leaning Europe. Unlike in other parts of Europe, the FPO has recently been in power as a junior coalition partner.

The opposition Social Democratic party scored its worst ever result – 21% – while the liberal NEOS drew about 9%. There was a high turnout of 74.9% as Austrian voters took part in an election dominated by migration and asylum issues, as well as the war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Just like happened with the recent elections in Germany that saw the populist right AfD win massive victories, the entire political establishment has coalesced into an anti-FPO coalition.

Via Euronews (emphasis added):

To become Austria's new leader, Kickl needs a coalition partner to command a parliamentary majority, and that might be tricky.

He has said he is open to negotiating with other parties, but his rivals — including Chancellor Karl Nehammer and Social Democrats leader Andreas Babler — have refused the possibility of working with the far right, turning him down yet again on Sunday night…

"I have always said, with Herbert Kickl, who believes in conspiracy theories, who accuses the WHO of being the next world government and the meeting in Davos of being a preparatory meeting for world domination, you can't run a state sensibly and responsibly with him. And I still stand by that," he said.

A major question is whether the ÖVP and Social Democrats will align — potentially with an additional, smaller party like the Greens or NEOS — to form an anti-Kickl coalition.

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The “literal Nazi” smears against the FPO are coming in hot and heavy, as one would expect — but perhaps even more intense, as the party was actually founded by a Nazi functionary in the 50s.

Via Wikipedia (emphasis added):

The FPÖ was founded in 1956 as the successor to the short-lived Federation of Independents (VdU), representing pan-Germanists and national liberals opposed to socialism and Catholic clericalism, represented by the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) and the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), respectively. Its first leader, Anton Reinthaller, was a former Nazi functionary and SS officer, but the FPÖ did not advocate far-right policies and presented itself as a centrist party. The FPÖ was long the third-largest in Austria and had modest support. Under the leadership of Norbert Steger in the early 1980s, it sought to style itself on Germany's Free Democratic Party (FDP). The FPÖ gave external support to SPÖ chancellor Bruno Kreisky (SPÖ) after the 1970 election and joined Fred Sinowatz's government, as the SPÖ's junior partner, after the 1983 election.

But, seventy-something years later, how literally Nazi could this party — which has never embraced Nazism, even in its inception — really be?

Look at this do-gooder, friendly nerd and to tell me: by all appearances, does he look more like a reincarnation of some genocidal 20th-century goosestepping dictator, or a milquetoast Austrian guy with a sensible nationalist bent?

 

 

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