Radical-right opposition in Austria is gaining ground in Viennese elections, losing coalition parties

By the local elections In the Austrian capital Vienna, the Radical-Right Party FPö has achieved a fifth of the votes. With that, the party did three times as well compared to the previous elections, in 2020. Report that Austrian media. In Austria, the municipal elections of Vienna are the first test for the New national coalitionwho took office at the end of February.

With 39.5 percent, however, the Social Democrats (Spö) remain the largest in Vienna, the party lost light. The conservative ÖVP of Chancellor Christian Stocker went back to 10.7 percent in the Austrian capital and gets stuck at 9.7 percent. Spö and ÖVP form a nationwide coalition with the Liberal Party Neos.

Austria held national elections last fall. This was followed by the longest formation since the Second World War, with the Cordon Sanitaire around the largest party, FPö, broken. The party tried to form a government together with the ÖVP, but the negotiations dragged in February on the distribution of ministerial posts. This was followed by a coalition between conservatives, social democrats and liberals.

The FPö ended up in opposition again – it came once. The party was founded in 1956 by Former Nazis And is known for its pro-Russian course and strict migration positions.

Although the FPö wins firmly in Vienna, the party lags behind the results of the national elections, where almost 29 percent were achieved. Migration and integration play an important role in Vienna, writes the Austrian newspaper Der Standard In a first comment after the elections. On these themes, the FPö has had to give up territory to other parties, who have put these subjects on the agenda more and more.

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