As Austria prepares for its national election on September 29th, major political parties are holding final rallies to galvanize their supporters. Herbert Kickl, leader of the Freedom Party (FPOE), addressed a crowd in Vienna, while Chancellor Karl Nehammer of the Peoples Party (OeVP) also held his final campaign event.
Head of the Freedom Party Herbert Kickl , left, waves to supporters besides party colleague Susanne Fuerst after his speech at a final election campaign event at St. Stephen’s square in Vienna, Austria , Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, ahead of the country’s national election which will take place on Sept. 29. Austria n Chancellor Karl Nehammer of the Peoples Party attends his final election rally in Vienna, Austria , Friday, Sept. 27, 2024.
More than 6.3 million people age 16 and over are eligible to vote for the new parliament in Austria, a European Union member that has a policy of military neutrality.4 people found dead in eastern Romania as rainstorms leave hundreds strandedKickl has achieved a turnaround since Austria’s last parliamentary election in 2019. In June, the Freedom Party narrowly won a nationwide vote for the first time in theIn 2019, its support slumped to 16.
Gernot Bauer, a journalist with Austrian magazine Profil who recently co-published an investigative biography of the far-right leader, said that under Kickl’s leadership, the Freedom Party has moved “even further to the right,” as Kickl refuses to explicitly distance the party from the The leader of the Social Democrats, a party that led many of Austria’s post-World War II governments, has positioned himself as the polar opposite to Kickl.While the Freedom Party has recovered, the popularity of Nehammer’s People’s Party, which currently leads a coalition government with the environmentalist Greens as junior partners, has declined since 2019.
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