A populist has been elected as Parliament President in Austria for the first time ever following national elections in September. Freedom Party of Austria (FPOe) lawmaker Walter Rosenkranz won the votes of 100 of the 183 deputies in the assembly. Only the Greens unanimously opposed him, while other parties allowed their members to vote freely.
The position is the second-highest office of state after the Federal President and is traditionally awarded to the party that comes first in national elections. The FPOe won in September, beating the notionally center-right Austrian People’s Party (OeVP) into second place.
However, leftist Federal President Alexander van der Bellen has not given the FPOe and its leader, Herbert Kickl, a chance to attempt to form a government despite their victory. Instead, current Chancellor Karl Nehammer of the OeVP, who regards the vaccine skeptic Kickl as a “conspiracy theorist,” has been tasked with trying to form a new government.
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Kickl commented on the situation on Facebook, saying to voters, “This may seem like a slap in the face for many of you. But I promise you, the final word hasn’t been spoken yet.” The FPOe and Kickl ran on one of the most anti-mass migration platforms in Europe, with Kickl openly supporting a policy of remigration.
The situation in Austria is part of a broader trend in Europe in which populist parties have won the largest number of votes but have been shut out of governing as no establishment parties will work with them. RINO-like center-right parties like the OeVP generally prefer to form coalitions with green and socialist parties.
In France, for instance, despite Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) being the largest single party in the National Assembly, far-left and globalist parties worked together to deny populists key positions in the legislature.
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