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Forums - Politics Discussion - Is it time to worry about Austria? - UPDATE: Austria remains independent

barneystinson69 on 30 April 2016
OttoniBastos said:
The ascension of the right(i'm going to assume far right based on OP's post) is a natural and expected consequence of how the left is dealing with the refugee crisis they help to start to begin with.

Social media(which is mostly from the left) first tried to pretend nothing was happening(when it was just random non-coordinated violent acts),then after the last year's eve in germany,social media kept their mouth shut for like a week without saying a single thing about that event and when they finally came out of their caves they started using the racist card.

Thing is,people don't care about political correctness when their daughters are being raped or when someone can explode a public place and why? because the goverment couldn't afford to check who was getting into the country and just opened the gates as if they were asking for a trojan horse?!

This. Stupid EU politicans have allowed this to go on for decade's, and Europe is now a big mess because of it! Europe should stop immigrating people, hope that the ones right now integrate, and learn from these mistake's. People who don't like the facts can go to the middle east and enjoy "multiculuturalism" there! 



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barneystinson69 on 24 May 2016
RolStoppable said:

Update

I've got to say that I lucked out on this one. Kinda.

The FPÖ guy (Norbert Hofer) got 51.9% of the votes on Sunday, but the official result didn't arrive until Monday afternoon. The reason being that the votes which arrived via mail had yet to be counted, and those were almost 900,000 of a total of ~4.5 million votes. Overall, 72.7% of eligible voters made use of their right, so the number of voters rose even further for the final round of the election. Six years ago only 53.6% went through the trouble.

In the end Alexander van der Bellen won with 50.3%, a gap of roughly 31,000 votes. This means that Austria will remain independent from Germany, although during the last few weeks I was warming up to the idea of living in the country of the World and (soon to be) European champion of football.

Moral of the story: Maybe voting isn't a complete waste of time. I didn't vote this time either, but the result was a lot closer than I expected.

Here's a cool map of the majorities in individual districts. Looks overwhelmingly blue, but Vienna in the northeast consists of 23 districts which are barely distinguishable here. Austria's capital also has the highest population density by far. Just in case somebody is wondering how green won.

What? So apparently the FPO wanted to create a sort of "4th reich" with germany? Lol.



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WolfpackN64 on 24 May 2016

That election was close, too close. If we're not vigilant, we might see disaster in Europe again. Austria is not the only country in Europe right now that has far-right fever.



barneystinson69 on 24 May 2016
WolfpackN64 said:
That election was close, too close. If we're not vigilant, we might see disaster in Europe again. Austria is not the only country in Europe right now that has far-right fever.

Really? Because most countries in Europe have seen a large increase in the rise of the right, and for a good reason. And what disaster would come from this exactly? Right winged doesn't = nazi.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/05/daily-chart-18

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/22/world/europe/europe-right-wing-austria-hungary.html



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Metallox on 24 May 2016
RolStoppable said:

Update

Interesting. For what I can tell the ecologist party won mostly in cities. 



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WolfpackN64 on 25 May 2016
barneystinson69 said:
WolfpackN64 said:
That election was close, too close. If we're not vigilant, we might see disaster in Europe again. Austria is not the only country in Europe right now that has far-right fever.

Really? Because most countries in Europe have seen a large increase in the rise of the right, and for a good reason. And what disaster would come from this exactly? Right winged doesn't = nazi.

This isn't just a rise of "the right". Parties like the FN, FPÖ, PVV have clear fascist influences. The centre-right meanwhile is shrinking, they don't have any awnsers to this problem, nor does the far right, but people still need to realise that.



forest-spirit on 25 May 2016

Damn close but at least Hofer didn't win.