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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It’s never just “the right” with the commie fags in the “media”. It always has to be “the far right.” I’ve never seen anything about “the far left”.
“I have always said that islam is naziism with a twist of religion thrown in to keep people from criticizing it.”
Close, it has a twist of “brown” religion, otherwise if it was primarily a white religion, leftists would be obligated to oppose it
Trump is a true leader in a bread and circuses world.
European citizens are defanged.
Their Government destoying their way of life.
If they rise up, I’d like to help them with their revolution.
ED
“Arnold should run for President”
If you mean Arnold the Awful, our former worthless as $hit governor of California, I agree. Deport that SOS back to his “fatherland.” Maybe as Chancellor of Austria (or whatever they call their top of the heap POS), he can knock up another maid.
They should have printed the ballots in Austrian so people would have known what they were voting for
Is there EVER such a thing as the FAR LEFT in Europe?
No article ever refers to anyone as that!
Eff the globalists!
It’s about time more Austrians start trying to save their country (but too bad that they have run-off elections). They see what effect this mass migration from the Middle East is having.
Viel Glück, Österreich. Du bist ein schönes Land. Lassen Sie sich nicht vernichtet werden.
Does this picture signify you are saddened by the anti-globalist success? Are you afraid you will lose the ability to tell your personal illegal alien to make you a sammich?
By the current definition, Churchill would have been labeled as being radical right.
>>Reasoned middle of the road people with common sense is more like it.
In Europe, Far Right is Nationalists, Far Left are Internationalists. Both are Socialists.
If it's Austria, where are the kangaroos?
Yes, I agree.
Thanks. I’m not up on my European groups.
I just know how they frame us for having common sense approaches to things. I have thought the “far” right in Europe was probably getting at least some of the same bum rap.
That doesn’t mean that they aren’t socialists too though. They don’t have to agree with us on everything to think the insane massive wave of invaders is wrong headed.
Sorry, that old Anschuss picture is totally inappropriate, but I thought this audience (FreeRepublic) would immediately catch on that I was mocking the headline.
So....now it is “far right” to want not to be overrun by Islamic Fascists with no connection to the homeland.
Wow.
No problem, it’s kinda hard to add a closing sarcasm tag to a picture like that. :)
Well, I’m mentioning how the media usually see folks like us.
I think they do the same things to the right around the world.
They try to make them look like racist yokels.
When I see that hammer coming I will water the tree of liberty
now there is a great thought
a California liberal republican should be just right for Europe
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