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%.

  • Pooptimist
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    42 months ago

    Just one errata: his name is Karl Nehammer, but everything else is correct (sadly)

    • Zyratoxx
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      32 months ago

      How tf did I get that one wrong. Must have been me writing Kurz one time to much and getting a stroke :')

      Thanks for reading my stuff so carefully :3

      • Pooptimist
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        32 months ago

        Thank you for writing such a great summary! :)