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A year ago, a video with FPÖ director Heinz-Christian Strache as the lead actor really turned the republic upside down. The FPÖ fell from government, a chancellor was voted in for the first time, there was the chief expert government, and the Greens rose like a phoenix from the ashes.
The bomb exploded late. Back in 2017, the video was recorded in a villa on the Spanish island of Ibiza where Strache and his friend Johann Gudenus, then acting president of the FPÖ club, spoke about their office in front of a suspected Latvian-Russian oligarchic niece. It remains unclear why the film’s document remained locked for two years. Sponsors have also not been fully investigated, a political context is now considered unlikely, but was likely a criminal act in which, among other things, a lawyer and a detective may have been involved. In any case, the cause is still awaiting judicial and parliamentary prosecution.
But what could be seen in the images published through “Spiegel” and “Süddeutscher Zeitung” that not only wrote the history of the liberal party? First and foremost, two high-ranking alcoholic, liberal politicians, who lost all political shame in front of a beautiful young woman, who thought she was a Russian heir to millions. In addition to boasting and other embarrassments (from “Bist du deppert, die schoarf” to Gudenus’s Baller gesture to illustrate the Glock family), the FPÖ leadership was also happy to take away the “Kronen Zeitung”, which, by Of course, it didn’t belong to him. To privatize Austrian water and send donations to his own party.
B’s open face, not everything meant serious, spectacular, so Strache later tried to illustrate why one shouldn’t believe the words, please. That didn’t help much. Zack, zack, zack, how he wanted to get rid of the nasty “Krone” journalists from the editorial office, the FPÖ boss himself was now far from the window, reluctantly, but at least. It did no good to libertarians. The ÖVP also wanted to get rid of Interior Minister Herbert Kickl (FPÖ), which was annoying for several reasons, which then went too far for the Blues.
The consequences are well known. Chancellor Sebastián Kurz (ÖVP) expelled Kickl from the government of federal president Alexander Van der Bellen. After a disaster in the EU elections for the SPÖ and the FPÖ, they immediately took revenge on Kurz and his cabinet, which in the meantime had been supplemented by experts hunting. Immediately entered the electoral campaign, while Van der Bellen not only kept The morale of the Austrians was high (“We are not like that”), but it also installed a cabinet of experts, which, under the leadership of the first chancellor Brigitte Bierlein, was the greatest despite the (hardly) remarkable work. It enjoyed popularity among the population. Even those two who liked to stand out, Interior Minister Georg Peschorn and Defense Minister Thomas Starlinger, are now almost forgotten.
