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In his speech he plainly states that there is no political convergence with the SocDems, he was a victim of (former SPÖ campaign manager) Siberstein like campaigning and he had been very happy with the coalition. Apparently he just didn't notice that they were working at the Orbanisation of the Austrian media landscape? Yet it seems the state broadcaster did notice, they were incredibly careful in not putting any blame at the Kurz's doorstep. There was one truly bizarre episode when their domestic policy chief wanted to detect increasing anger and aggression in the crowd that reminded him of the time the first far-right government had to sneak into the Hofburg through a tunnel. His younger colleague only found a "party mood", the police guy had "no incidence" and all the while he was talking you could see a little kid sitting on someone's shoulders right behind him in the crowd, but what do they know. True to form in Russian election interference scandals we are again mainly looking at some idiots getting scammed by fake oligarchs. And talking about election interference: In a curious coincidence, their "very good Israeli friends" arrested Silberstein right in the hot phase of the last election.
tfw du jahrelang eine partei aufbaust, sie in die regierung bringst und am ende bleibt dieses bild übrig pic.twitter.com/0fcc3ix7KZ— Rosi Rosinger (@Rosinnjo) 18. Mai 2019
tfw du jahrelang eine partei aufbaust, sie in die regierung bringst und am ende bleibt dieses bild übrig pic.twitter.com/0fcc3ix7KZ
A new election is already planned for September, and President Alexander Van der Bellen now needs to appoint a caretaker government to serve until then. [...] Kurz loses the advantage of campaigning as an incumbent chancellor but remains popular and his center-right party finished first Sunday in Austria in the European Parliament election with 34.9% support, a gain of almost 8 percentage points over 2014.
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