Posted on 05/22/2016 9:12:08 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Edited on 05/22/2016 9:46:04 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Vienna (AFP) - Austrian far-right hopes of winning a presidential runoff remained on hold Sunday as the candidates were neck-and-neck in a battle closely watched by the EU, which is struggling to contain a surge of anti-immigrant parties.
A win would see Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party (FPOe) become the European Union's first far-right head of state.
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Well, if their elections are anything like ours, the liberals will keep counting until they win.
A preview of our elections. perhaps?
postal vote = absentee ballot.
Like in Oregon.
Interesting that the Green Party guy is the opponent.
If its close, the leftists win.
Trump’s hard-line anti-Islam stance made it possible for Austria’s right to make such gains. Trump 2016!
“Mr Hofer had 51.9% and Mr Van der Bellen - an independent candidate who is supported by the Green Party - had 48.1% after the final count of votes cast at polling stations, the interior ministry said.”
Homer is ahead by almost 4%. Unless they stuff absentee ballots, I doubt the greenie can close that gap.
Homer = Hofer, damn auto fill!
Anyone saying a nation should control its borders and place limits on the admission of inassimilable people is automatically labeled far-right by the media.
“I just don’t want my daughter raped” = racist, xenophobe, transphobe
>>...a battle closely watched by the EU, which is struggling to contain a surge of anti-immigrant parties.<<
Why is anti-immigration sentiment a threat to the EU? In plain-speak, the EU is struggling to contain anti-muslim parties. How does the EU believe that it benefits from its member nations being overrun by Muslim thugs?
If it is neck and neck, the fascist left will win.
The term far Right is just a euphemism for anyone who dares to stand up to the elite & oppose their dispossession in their own land.
The talk is that 12 percent of the total vote will be ‘postal ballots’.
With that in mind it would take Van der Bellen getting somewhere around 64-65 percent of that vote to overcome Hofer’s lead.
Unless it was a field of 5 or more with the winner getting a plurality with just 20% or so, I’d wouldn’t be calling anyone getting 50% of the vote “hard-right”.
“far-right”
There was a first round of voting that this green candidate came in second and Hofer first. Voting there is similar to California’s system.
I found some actual count info / maps and Hoyer has won everywhere except some of the big cities.
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