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According to the first extrapolation, the FPÖ receives 7.5 percent, in 2015 it was 30.79 percent. This would give the FPÖ 8 seats, it would lose second place and 26 seats.
Even after the first trend forecast, the collapse was predictable, 10 percent predicted. Anton Mahdalik, club boss of the Viennese FPÖ, sees the reason for this mainly in the former party leader Heinz-Christian Strache. “A lot of confidence was lost,” Mahdalik said, referring to the Ibiza affair and the former vice chancellor’s expenses. “The current party leadership cannot do anything about it.”
No debate with the president
Mahdalik does not expect a president debate. Dominik Nepp led an election campaign from one source: “There was recently” a job not much more difficult “than leading the FPÖ after the Strache scandals, said the club president.
The question is not exactly of interest to the FPÖ either. “Corona plays the rulers’ game,” according to Mahdalik’s analysis. Also, in 2015, when the FPÖ was over 30 percent, there was the large refugee movement.
The secretary of the state FPÖ party, Michael Stumpf, was also disappointed. As reasons for the losses, Stumpf identified the awakening of fear by the federal government in the wake of the corona pandemic and the emergence of former party leader Strache with his own list on ORF. Also for Stumpf, Dominik Nepp was “the best leading candidate” and “the best man in the right place at the right time.” The FPÖ themes were also appropriate. According to Stumpf, the result will be analyzed internally on Tuesday, a reunification with Heinz-Christian Strache is out of the question.
The result of the Vienna FPÖ elections “had no consequences at the federal level,” said the vice president of the federal party and Upper Austria. LH Vice Manfred Haimbuchner. Any personal debate “I reject”, he clarified. The loss of more than two-thirds of the votes according to the FPÖ’s first extrapolation in Vienna was “valued within the party.” He also sees the reasons for this in the past in Heinz-Christian Strache. However, with the outcome of the Vienna elections, Haimbuchner believes his party has hit rock bottom.
