Index – Abroad – Great fall of the FPÖ, social success in the Vienna elections

The next mayor (also) is named Michael Ludwig

– said Birgit Hebein, deputy mayor of the Vienna Green Party, already in the summer.

He was probably right tonight.

Ludwig, 59, who has been in charge of the 1.9 million Austrian capital since 2018, was the leader of the Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) in today’s elections in Vienna, with the SPÖ predicting a 42 percent lead. cent first.

The party is currently co-chairing the Greens with the Greens and will still have to look for coalition partner (s).

The capital is one of Austria’s nine provinces, and the now elected 100-member Vienna Assembly also functions as the provincial parliament and the mayor as the provincial governor.

According to the first forecasts, the most popular government party at the national level, the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), could receive 17.5 percent, the Greens 15 and the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), from far right, ten percent. This represents a huge drop for the FPÖ, a loss of more than twenty percentage points compared to 2015; True, so the immigration crisis also helped the votes against immigration.

Ibiza hurts a lot

Among the leaders of Vienna’s party list, Heinz-Christian Strache in particular may be biting his nails: Analysts say the HC Strache team, which was fired by the former Liberal Vice Chancellor, needs to jump the 5% entry threshold to that the politician’s return to Austrian politics is realistic. It was unclear Sunday night if that was the case, as Strache’s party was forecasting just 4 percent so far.

Strache and the FPÖ parted ways after falling into the Ibiza scandal that broke out last May.

The video, which compromised the vice chancellor, provoked a government crisis, and the radical right-wing party was first sent into the opposition and then greatly weakened. Up to the current decrease of 20 percentage points. Many FPÖ supporters could now vote for the Popular Party, according to the first data set.

In addition to the well-known forces of great Austrian politics, agglomerations like

• Social Austria of the Future (SÖZ); It is run by people of Turkish descent, but SÖZ, whose name in Turkish means promise, word, speech, refuses to be called an immigrant party.
• The Beer Party, a joke party founded by punk musician Marco Pogo, wants a bureaucracy instead of a bureaucracy, which means it would give way to liquid bread instead of filing.

However, their support is negligible, at least that was the case Sunday night.

However, forecasts must be treated with caution: Due to the coronavirus epidemic, many more people sent their votes, more than usual, in hundreds of thousands of letters. The final result is expected only on Monday, possibly Tuesday. The Austrian coronavirus situation may have affected not only campaign and engagement, but much more.

The Vienna Health Ministry tried on Sunday to refute information that the Green People’s Party government was preparing once again for curfew restrictions, but the assumption remains valid in the Austrian press. They recognized that they could reinforce the obligation to wear a mask and the conditions for holding events.

In Austria, more than 55,000 people have been infected so far and the number of new infections has increased by 896 in the last 24 hours. At least 851 people died from complications of the disease.

Free pass, car-free center, Deutsch

Vienna was voted the most livable city in the world for the last time. But there is always room for improvement, say the Austrians. The main themes of this year’s campaign included transportation policy, social issues and immigration issues; the first two are mainly from the Socdems and the Greens, the last from the FPÖ and Team Strache.

About 40 percent of Vienna’s population is of foreign origin, and the party’s list leaders named the Favoriten district, where nearly 50 percent of them is the most troubled part of the city.

The Index did a pre-election video report on the spot at the end of the week.

In the summer, Turks and Kurds clashed in Favoriten for internal political reasons in Turkey.

Some cool things about party programs in town:

• nurses, midwives and 120 new doctors must be hired immediately (SPÖ)
• new public transport vehicles (SPÖ) to be marketed
• digital classroom: tablets instead of the heavy bag (SPÖ)
• one hundred thousand new trees, several bike lanes and (green) pedestrian streets
• Free public transportation one-year pass (greens)
• Within 250 meters, everyone should live near a park (greens)
• strict action against criminal aliens (FPÖ)
• 1,500 new police officers in Vienna (FPÖ)
• Ban on demonstrations on shopping streets and main roads (FPÖ)
• compulsory German education for immigrants (Team Strache)
• bicycle license plate (Team Strache)
• ban mosquitoes (Strache Team)

Then the parts of the new coalition will negotiate all this.