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Saw "Nazi" graffitied on this guy's face in Vienna last week and was wondering whether that was an exaggeration. Seems not, unfortunately.
Yeah. Too bad the other parties weren't doing better but there are various reasons:
The people's party ÖVP is still suffering from their former-former head of party Sebastian Kurz who was extremely popular and the Austrian chancellor for quite a while but who had to resign after a series of corruption charges. The ÖVP then quickly appointed Alexander Schallenberg as their new head and as chancellor but it was clear from the beginning, that he was a puppet. He then had to resign after a meeting in Brussels where "Schallenberg" wanted to tweet something like "So happy to be meeting with (Von der Leyen I think) in Brussels..." but they posted it not on Schallenberg's twitter account but accidentally on Kurz' twitter which made it even more clear that Schallenberg was nothing but a puppet. Austria then had a new chancellor AGAIN roughly two weeks after Kurz resigned and is officially led by Karl Nehammer since then. But let's just say the ÖVP's reputation has been pretty miserable ever since Kurz left. Even worse they tried to steal voters from the FPÖ by radicalising to the right, legitimising a lot of FPÖ positions.
As for the social democratic SPÖ, it is divided between progressive democratic socialist and current head of party Andreas Babler and conservative social democrat Hans Peter Doskozil. They had been holding a vote for their head of party and it looked like Doskozil had won but they then admitted there had been an issue with an Excel sheet they used to count the votes and that Babler won the vote... In any case it made the SPÖ look like stupid amateurs. Like imagine Bernie Sanders & Joe Biden (but both quite a bit younger) constantly dissing themselves and you get the mess that is the SPÖ.
Edit: I corrected "Kurt Nehammer" to "Karl Nehammer"
Just one errata: his name is Karl Nehammer, but everything else is correct (sadly)
How tf did I get that one wrong. Must have been me writing Kurz one time to much and getting a stroke :')
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Thank you for writing such a great summary! :)