Wilders and Orbán congratulate Austria’s far-right Freedom occasion on ballot success – newest updates

German Inexperienced MEP Daniel Freund reacted to the Austrian election’s consequence with an emoji.

Right here’s an attention-grabbing graph of the place the far-right’s votes got here from.

Right here’s a map from ORF displaying which events got here first in every Austrian municipality.

Austrian media is noting this morning the geographic variations within the far-right’s efficiency yesterday.

The far-right did particularly nicely in rural areas and smaller cities, whereas the Social Democrats carried out nicely in most massive cities.

Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders additionally celebrated the result of Austria’s election.

“The Netherlands, Hungary, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, France, Spain, Czech Republic and today Austria! We are winning! Times are changing!” he wrote.

Tutorial Cas Mudde has written of the Austrian election outcomes that the “swing is mainly WITHIN and not towards ÖVP-FPÖ.”

“This is increasingly common: right-wing block wins modestly but within the right-wing block the far right wins big,” he added.

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán has congratulated Herbert Kickl, describing the election outcomes as a “historic victory.”

Orbán’s Fidesz occasion and Kickl’s far-right Freedom occasion are each members of the Patriots for Europe group.

Far-right Freedom occasion finishes first in Austrian election, newest outcomes counsel

Deborah Cole

The far proper received probably the most votes in an Austrian election for the primary time because the Nazi period on Sunday, because the Freedom occasion (FPÖ) rode a tide of public anger over migration and the price of residing to beat the centre-right Folks’s occasion (ÖVP).

The professional-Kremlin, anti-Islam FPÖ received 29.2% of votes, beating the ruling ÖVP of the chancellor, Karl Nehammer, into second place on 26.5%, based on near-complete outcomes.

The opposition Social Democratic occasion scored its worst ever end result – 21% – whereas the liberal NEOS drew about 9%. Regardless of devastating flooding this month from Storm Boris bringing the local weather disaster to the fore, the Greens, junior companions within the authorities coalition, tallied 8.3% in a dismal fifth place.

Taking advantage of a rightwing surge in lots of elements of Europe and taking Hungary’s Viktor Orbán as a mannequin, the FPÖ capitalised on fears round migration, asylum and crime heightened by the August cancellation of three Taylor Swift concert events in Vienna over an alleged Islamist terror plot.

Its polarising lead candidate, Herbert Kickl, who campaigned utilizing the “people’s chancellor” moniker as soon as used to explain the Austrian-born Adolf Hitler, mentioned he was able to type a authorities with “each and every one” of the events in parliament.

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