Initial results show Austria tilting right in national vote

[RandySF]

Initial results showed the party of Austria's 31-year-old foreign minister leading in national elections Sunday, putting him on course to become the youngest head of government in Europe.

Projections from the SORA polling organization showed the People's Party led by Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz receiving 30.5 percent of the vote and the euroskeptic Freedom Party 26. 8 percent of the vote. Both parties had focused their campaigns on concerns about immigration and Islam.

The Social Democrats, who campaigned on the need for social equality, were projected to come third with 26.2 percent of the vote.

While the projections were based on initial results, they could herald a coalition between the two parties that would mean a rightward turn for Austria, now governed by a coalition made up of the Social Democrats and the People's Party.

The parties with the initial lead have called for securing Austria's borders and quickly deporting asylum-seekers whose requests are denied — ideas that appear to have been heard.

The People's Party went into the election with the most support, according to polls, with the Freedom Party second and the Social Democrats third.


https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/15/austria-election-results-projections-show-austria-tilting-right.html

[stevenleser]

1. If I had to pick a country in Western Europe that would succumb to the current pressures to go right

... Austria would be the one.

Not much of a surprise there.

[Iliyah]

2. Austria aligned with Hilter

Agreed, no surprise.

[Yupster]

3. I went to college in Austria in 1980

It was a very conservative, orderly society.

I went back a few years ago and was surprised to see people in full burkhas. I admit it was disturbing.

One time we were in a restaurant and two couples were at the neighboring table, both women in full burkhas. The women had tp bring each piece of food under their veil? to eat. They couldn't participate in the table talk. You couldn't see if they were enjoying themselves or not. When the waiter came, the woman would whisper in her husband's ear and the husband would ask the waiter for something for his wife. It wasn't just covering up. It was removing the woman from the picture. It was disturbing.

I'm not surprised the Austrians will forma backlash against this, especially Austrian women, who I found to be very assertive.

[Fluke a Snooker]

4. Actually, I find Islamaphobia like your explanation far MORE disturbing

Muslim progressive advancement will occur. But the real problem is the advance of white supremacism, instigated by the Republican Party in the US with the coup takeover of Donald Trump. We need diversity to fully integrate and mitigate the oppression that "Western Civilization" has unleashed with torrid fury against Muslims and people of color around the globe. Please refocus your concerns on the REAL enemy: Unleashed White Sumpremacy, led by Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and the Hitlerian neo-desecendancy of Europe.

[snooper2]

5. Donald Trump has Xtian fundies, you don't need Muslim fundies to "bring balance"

It's not Islamaphobia, nobody here is "scared" of Muslims. People are scared of Fundies taking positions of power in any government anywhere in the World though.