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Addition on the municipal elections in Vienna - full results:

SPÖ (Social Democrats):    49,03% (plus 2,12)
ÖVP (conservatives)    18,75% (plus 2,36)
FPÖ (post-Haider far right):    14,88% (minus 5,28)
Die Grünen (Greens):    14,67% (plus 2,22)
KPÖ (communists):    1,46% (plus 0,82)
BZÖ (Haider's new breakaway far right):    1,15%

You see the FPÖ actually shrunk, even with BZÖ added, but given that the Vianne FPÖ leader is much more openly xenophobic than Haider was, this near 15% is still scary. (...and if only 0.22% had gone to the Greens instead of SPÖ, headlines would be different...)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Mon Oct 24th, 2005 at 08:42:45 AM EST
...forgot the seats (100 total):

    * SPÖ: 55 (+3)
    * ÖVP: 18 (+2)
    * Grüne: 14 (+3)
    * FPÖ: 13 (-8)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Mon Oct 24th, 2005 at 08:46:55 AM EST
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I have commented before that it seems clear that across Europe there is a 15% of the population that will vote for authoritarian xebophobic parties given the chance. Scary as it is, I don't think it will go away. We have to learn to live with it.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Oct 24th, 2005 at 09:01:45 AM EST
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