The Freedom Party secured their first national parliamentary election victory in post-World War II Austria on Sunday, finishing ahead of the governing conservatives after tapping into anxieties about immigration, vowing to block all asylum requests from Muslim countries.
Associated Press In its election platform, titled “Fortress Austria,” the Freedom Party, which has vowed to block all asylum requests from Muslim countries. calls for “remigration of uninvited foreigners,” for achieving a more “homogeneous” nation by tightly controlling borders and suspending the right to asylum via an emergency law.
Preliminary official results showed the Freedom Party finishing first with 29.2 percent of the vote and Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s Austrian People’s Party was second with 26.5 percent. The center-left Social Democrats were in third place with 21 percent.
Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister and longtime campaign strategist who has led the Freedom Party since 2021, has Aled his party to 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 the European Parliament election, which also brought gains for other European far-right parties.
The party received warm words from allies in Europe, where the FPO forms part of a right-wing group inside the European Parliament led by France’s National Rally (RN). Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders, whose party dominates the Netherlands’ new government, congratulated the Freedom Party on social network X Sunday. So did Alice Weidel, a co-leader of the Alternative for Germany party.
Everyone is sick of this filth (Islam) it seems
While this is certainly good news it remains to be seen whether the FPÖ will be part of, leave alone leading the future administration. The center and left parties can easily form a parliamentary majority against them.
Great news, I wish all the country’s in the West will do the same.
Enough is enough.
Any elected leader who mass imports Muslims is a traitor and your purest of enemy.A leader who wants to stop all Muslim immigration is a hero and needs support.Muslims are cancer,period.My once peaceful city is very fast becoming a shithole all because of the sick and twisted liberal ideology!
Seeing the destruction of the societal norm, should move any country towards restricting their asylum grants, and a close vetting of those that they consider granting asylum to. Those that they are unable to be background checked, should be turned away. Doing otherwise, should be considered contributing to the breakdown of security of the populace.
Why is it that Far Left Extremists refer to middle-of-the-road parties as “far right”? I guess that’s just what Far Left Extremists do.