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The FPÖ concluded its electoral campaign in Vienna with numerous anti-foreign speeches.
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The Vienna FPÖ used the end of its election campaign on Friday to protest against uncontrolled immigration and foreigners in general. Top candidate Dominik Nepp and his party colleagues warned that Viennese are becoming increasingly “strangers in their own city” and crime is exploding.
Despite the corona virus, the Vienna FPÖ has not been dissuaded from ending its election campaign in the classic way with a mass event at Viktor-Adler-Markt in Vienna-Favoriten. The place was well packed on Friday afternoon, the distance was not observed and the masks were only used sparingly. Speeches were also classically directed against rampant immigration and crown measures.
“John Otti Band” played “Imagine” by John Lennon
The blue house band “John Otti”, on the other hand, played something unusual. On the occasion of John Lennon’s 80th birthday, he performed the peace song “Imagine”, which is about a harmonious world in which all people live in peace with each other.
The act was accompanied by a massive police presence. Political competition was also visible: a few meters from the blue stage, the head of the Green Club, David Ellensohn, distributed green advertising.
The FPÖ had caricatured images of Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) and Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) as Pinocchio on the ground, with the request: “Stay one meter from this gentleman.”
The Viennese FPÖ bets on the anti-foreign billboard for the closing of the electoral campaign
As has been the case for years, there was a kind of culture clash between FPÖ voters and the hundreds of passersby with migratory backgrounds. There was practically only one theme in the speeches: immigration and the problems it raises.
The lead candidate, Dominik Nepp, as well as party leader Norbert Hofer and club president Herbert Kickl, draw on the lengthy speeches to criticize rampant immigration and misunderstood tolerance. Of course, he couldn’t do without the Corona problem.
Nepp wants to “lose” the “memo” of the red-green city government
All the speakers warned that Viennese had become “strangers in their own city” and that crime in the capital had exploded since 2015. “One in two people in prison is not a citizen,” Nepp said, and at the same time Time demanded that “criminal Africans serve their sentences at home and not relax in the luxurious Austrian port.” He also came out in favor of an immediate suspension of funding for Muslim associations, kindergartens and mosques. “Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans” also have no place “in the buildings of our community.” On October 11, they wanted to give the red-green city government a “memorandum” and “push the SPÖ to 30 percent,” said Nepp, who received audibly less applause than Kickl, who spoke after him and against his opponents. carefully removed from the leather.
Kickl denounced the “multicultural fatalism” that “has brought with it cultural achievements such as knife fights, machete fights and moral guards who see what is right.” “Damn, where do we take him?” Kickl yelled at the crowd. “95 percent of those who came to us have no business with us.”
Kickl campaigned for blue votes with sarcasm
Kickl only poked fun at political competition. He saw the top green candidate and deputy mayor Birgit Hebein “in the morning at the belt paddling pool and in the afternoon at the mass battle in Favoriten.” Kickl described his successor at the Home Office, Karl Nehammer (ÖVP), as a “hot shower” and Finance Minister Gernot Blümel (ÖVP) as “Austria’s youngest dementia patient.” FPÖ man Nepp, on the other hand, praised it as a “diamond in the rough that has become a real diamond under pressure.”
Kickl asked potential voters in the hearing “to think about all the horrors that the city government and the federal government have done to you. Don’t let your vote stay there.” Kickl campaigned for votes.
Hofer: “The FPÖ is back”
Hofer’s speech was less sarcastic, but very similar in content. He was outraged that the migrants threatened him and told them that he would make sure they left the country again. The immigration of recent years is “dangerous to the continued prosperity of our country” because the “many recipients of minimum income are not going to pay our pensions.” “We have to turn things around. It is our country and we will defend it,” said Hofer, who, as in the 2016 federal presidential elections, “felt today that the country was going through another shock.” “We can say that the FPÖ has returned,” said Hofer, whose speech was repeatedly disturbed by the audience of the counter-protesters.
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