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The Vienna FPÖ is based on anti-Islam posters. One clergyman calls the campaign “racist” and “just awful.”
The FPÖ Vienna is facing a disaster. In the Vienna elections on October 11, the Blues face a vote drop of more than two-thirds. More than 30 percent in the 2015 elections could become less than ten. The head of the Viennese FPÖ, Dominik Nepp, is fighting against the determination that former president Heinz-Christian Strache with his “Team HC Strache” could also boost by fishing the voters.
Pastor is outraged
To keep as many voters as possible, Nepp and his campaign manager, Harald Vilimsky, focus on tried and tested issues, especially foreigners and Islam. The bright blue top candidate poses on posters in contrast to veiled women and unfavorable photos of Mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) and Deputy Mayor Birgit Hebein (Greens).
One of the subjects in the griffin in front of St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna hits a particular man of God. “As a theologian, pastor and dean, I am dismayed by the election poster of the FPÖ and Mr. Nepp,” writes Karl Engelmann, pastor of the Kalvarienbergkirche in Vienna-Hernals, on Facebook. “How can our St. Stephen’s Cathedral have to be used for racist election advertising? I find this in bad taste and outrageous.” He makes his position clear: “I hope the FPÖ will get the bill in the elections. It’s just horrible.”
