#austrian elections

[austrian-government]

Sign this to at least feel slightly better about this fucking shitshow. (Note: you have to confirm your signature via the email link or it doesn't count)

[quecksilvereyes]

in the same way as the last post: fellow austrians, we are voting on september 29th. fpö is projected to be the party getting the most votes and if they do they will definitely pair up with the övp and make everyone's life miserable. (like. uhhhhhh lowering the age of criminal responsibility down from 14 bc ohhhhh scary migrant children with knives. thats just the last thing i saw.)

so. please. for the love of anything. if you're an austrian citizen. go vote. if you have a favourite politican or someone really appeals to you, you can give them a vorzugsstimme by putting their name in the box next to the party name. you can apply for a wahlkarte if you're not near your voting station at the time of the election. if you don't send it off in time, you can also bring it to any polling station on the day of the election.

wahlrechner.at doesn't have an option for the nationalratswahl yet but afaik, they will.

[cowswineandtea]

Shit.

[i-did-not-mean-to]

Just a little PSA.

You’re not alone. If you need anything, reach out a hand!

Lots of love and hugs from me. ❤️❤️❤️

[strawbbcake]

I'm european, and I don't trust myself to throw around facts about usa politics, so I'm just gonna shut my mouth about this. I do wish kamala would've won tho, that's the only thing I'll say

anyway, I do want to complain about the politics in my country. sorry for anything that might not make sense. translating this is a bit hard ngl.

here, in austria, we had elections for the national council a while back. a party named fpö won. fpö stands for "freedom party austria." it's a right extremist party, standing for the traditional hetero family, against immigrants, against abortion and its overall pretty extreme and problematic.

the politician Herbert Kickl, which is part of fpö, often comes across as extremely aggressive, in my opinion. "Festung Österreich" which basically means "fortress austria" seems to be his idea of the perfect austria. he'd like to close the borders and send immigrants to other countries. (more on that in a sec)

his claims are so problematic sometimes, it's insane. he is the type of person that just complains and hates and throws insults around. he thinks climate change doesn't exist (or if it does, isn't man-made), and has some problematic claims that you can research if you want, I don't want this to get too long.

as of coming across as aggressive, he often reminds (not only me but a lot of ppl) of Hitler at his speeches. he calls himself "Volkskanzler" (Idk how to correctly translate that), which, surprise surprise, the nazis called Hitler. this isn't a controversial opinion of mine, as wild as it may sound, a lot of people think this way

coming back to the deportation of immigrants, the party wants to deport criminal or illegal immigrants. I understand that, yes, but it truly isn't just criminal immigrants. anyone that I know, that is a fan of the fpö, is very hateful of any immigrant at all. "if they work, they can stay". sometimes people coming here have to wait a long ass time to even be able to go work.

one thing I don't understand about this at all is all the boys my age that think it's cool to vote for this party. they're either not austrian themselves or have a ton of friends that aren't. pisses me off a lot

at the end I wanna talk about the election posters?? they're weird as fuck, if I can say so. I'll try my best to translate some.

"your will be done" - which is a verse in the bible and a christian song

"the only one on your side" - self explanatory

stuff like that. I just find them weird and uncomfortable because most of them are just plain white with big blue font on top, but that's just my opinion. what's really noticeable tho, is that almost 80% of the posters I see are scribbled on or ripped, which really says a lot. I've never seen a drawn on poster from another party. things I've seen on there are "nazi pigs" "no 4th reich" "fascists",....going on like that.

anyways, if you've read all that... thank you? I don't really expect anyone to. I just really wanted to rant about this. maybe it's nice for people outside of austria to see how politics are going here, I'm not sure if Americans, for example, have any clue about this. if I said anything that's incorrect, feel free to correct me anytime. I don't mind at all as long as no one insults me.

[ghostyclay]

You know that your hyperfixation is getting bad when ur drawing random people to practice, but sth feels weirdly familiar about one of them, u just can't put ur finger on it

And then u suddenly realize, you accidentally drew joe hills from nashville tennessee, holding up communist propaganda, without even realizing it

(sketch below)

[polaroidcats]

every time a leftist doesn't vote because they are "rebelling against the system" a fascist gains their (right-)wings so maybe reconsider who you are actually supporting by not voting and please please please go vote

[feuer-bluete]

me @ austria: not surprised but still disappointed

[mysynonym]

anyone wanna go and cry together?

[austrian-government]

Nützlicher kleiner Guide bzgl. der österreichischen Nationalratswahl am 29. September (an der sich bittedanke alle Wahlberechtigten beteiligen werden! Bitte!)

Ich finde prinzipiell, dass man die Partei wählen sollte, der man inhaltlich am nächsten steht. Aber: auch wer unentschlossen ist, kann sich mit einer Stimme für die SPÖ - egal, was man von ihr hält - zumindest gegen die FPÖ einsetzen. Was unser gemeinsames Ziel sein sollte!!!

[icyplatinum]

Nazis getting first place by quite a bit this election. A sad day for Austrian democracy and another proof that humans are incapable of learning.

This is the same party that bankrupted an entire federal state and is involved in countless corruption scandals and Wiederbetätigung trials.

(If anyone thinks I‘m using the term Nazi lightly please note that just yesterday high ranking party officials have been sued cause they sang SS-songs at a funeral)

[milkywayan]

österreich was geht mit dir?!?!?!?!

[banannasposts]

Alle Umfragen haben gesagt, die FPÖ wird gewinnen, aber ich hab halt so doch irgendwie gehofft, bei den Umfragen haben sie nur so Wappler gefragt und deshalb stimmen die nicht so

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Deborah Cole and Ashifa Kassam at The Guardian:

Austria’s main parties are preparing to begin tense wrangling to form a government amid warnings about the country’s democracy after the far right’s watershed victory in a general election in which angry voters punished centrist incumbents over migration and inflation. On Sunday, the anti-Islam, Kremlin-friendly Freedom party (FPÖ) scored its strongest result since its founding after the second world war by former Nazi functionaries and SS officers with just over 29% of the vote. The outcome surpassed expectations and beat the ruling centre-right People’s party (ÖVP) by nearly three percentage points. The centre-left opposition Social Democratic party (SPÖ) turned in its worst-ever performance with 21% while the Greens, junior partners in government, sank to 8%. Exit polls showed that the 13-point gain for the FPÖ since the last parliamentary election in 2019 came thanks to strong support among younger voters. Amid deep frustration with the cost of living and angst about immigration, the hard right clearly won among Austrians under 34 with 27% of that demographic, and even more decisively with the 35-to-59 set on 37%. The FPÖ profited as well from festering resentment over Austria’s strict measures during the Covid pandemic.

The FPÖ, which cites Hungary’s Viktor Orbán as a model, placed only third with over-60s on 22%. Instead, they gave their support to the ÖVP of the chancellor, Karl Nehammer, with 38%, and the SPÖ on 24%. Austria has often faced criticism about its tepid culture of historical remembrance of the Nazi period, long casting itself as the Nazis’ “first victim” despite its enthusiastic welcome of the Anschluss in 1938 by native son Adolf Hitler. In the wake of Sunday’s results, the International Auschwitz Committee, representing survivors of the Nazi extermination camp from 19 countries, denounced an “alarming new chapter” in Austria. Its vice-president, Christoph Heubner, said they were placing their faith in the “common ground among Austria’s democrats” to “stand up to historical amnesia and the ideology of old and new rightwing extremists … in the interest of the country and Europe”.

[...] Despite its resounding win, the FPÖ, which calls for a “Fortress Austria” against migration and “remigration” or forced deportations of unwanted foreigners, will face an uphill battle to form a government as it failed to secure an absolute majority. All of the smaller parties have ruled out any cooperation with the hard right. The ÖVP, which has worked with the rightwing populists several times at national and regional level, would be a potential partner but has called a government led by polarising FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl a dealbreaker.

In Austria’s election this weekend, the far-right FPO won the most seats but not an absolute majority.

[anakinh]

if i wake up tomorrow and the election hasn't been called i demand recompense. destiel kiss.

[polaroidcats]

voting for the lesser evil to prevent having fascists in power is so sexy