Austria – HC Strache debacle in state elections – News

• According to an initial trend forecast from the ORF, the Social Democrats are on the path of victory in the Vienna state elections.
• According to initial forecasts, the SPÖ can count on Mayor Michael Ludwig with 41.7 percent of the vote.

• According to the forecast, the right-wing FPÖ will lose two-thirds of its voters compared to the record result of 2015 and only reach 7.5 percent.

• Former FPÖ party leader Heinz-Christian Strache has to tremble according to the five percent hurdle forecast before entering the state parliament.

According to an initial forecast, the Social Democrats are clearly in the lead in the local elections in Vienna. The People’s Party (ÖVP), traditionally weak in Vienna, has gained 8.3 percentage points and has 17.5 percent
second place.

Right-wing populist FPÖ, meanwhile, fell 20.8 percentage points to 10.0 percent after the Ibiza affair around his former boss Heinz-Christian Strache last year.

Former Vice Chancellor Strache, who was ousted over the affair, had reached 3.6 percent with his newly founded party “Team HC Strache – Alliance for Austria” and thus could not enter the Vienna city parliament. .

The Greens, who currently rule with the SPÖ in Vienna, were able to improve their participation by 3.2 percentage points to 15.0 percent. The liberal Neos reached 8.0 percent.

In all, around 1.3 million eligible voters were asked to elect a new state parliament today under strict Corona regulations. The state parliament of the Austrian capital has 100 seats.