Austria’s populist Freedom Party (FPOe) achieved its largest election success in the party’s history on Sunday, September 29, as young voters flocked to support the anti-mass migration party and its “remigration” policies. The FPOe won 29.2 percent of the national vote, beating their previous record of 26.9 percent back in 1999 when the party entered a coalition government as the junior partner of the center-right Austrian People’s Party (OeVP).
Herbert Kickl, leader of the FPOe and an ally of Hungary’s Viktor Orban in the European Union (EU), ran on an anti-mass migration platform and endorsed the concept of “remigration,” which could see large-scale deportations of illegal aliens and possibly incentives for migrants to return to their home countries.
“These invaders want to harm us, endanger our security and our prosperity,” Kickl said during the election campaign, calling for “Fortress Austria.”
The FPOe has become very popular among young voters, attaining first place among those under the age of 34 and winning 37 percent of the vote among those aged 35 to 59.
Despite winning the election, Kickl and his party will have to form a coalition government with another party for a majority in the Austrian parliament. Unlike Germany‘s Alternative for Germany (AfD) and France’s National Rally (RN), there is no so-called cordon sanitaire against the Austrian populists, with all other parties colluding to shut them out of office. This means there is a realistic prospect the FPOe could form a government with the center-right OeVP.
The OeVP last formed a coalition with the FPOe in 2017, which lasted until 2019. However, the OeVP was the senior partner in that coalition, and it is unclear whether it would accept a junior role with Kickl rather than an OeVP politician becoming Chancellor.
The Social Democrats, Greens, and liberal NEOS group have all ruled out working with the FPOe.
Austria national parliament election today: Final seat count: FPÖ-PfE: 56 (+25) ÖVP-EPP: 52 (-19) SPÖ-S&D: 41 (+1) NEOS-RE: 18 (+3) GRÜNE-G/EFA: 16 (-10) +/- vs. last election
Austria's populist Freedom Party (FPOe) achieved its largest election success in the party's history on Sunday, September 29, as young voters flocked to support the anti-mass migration party and its "remigration" policies. The FPOe won 29.2 percent of the national vote, beating their previous record of 26.9 percent back in 1999 when the party entered a coalition government as the junior partner of the center-right Austrian People's Party (OeVP).
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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Deputy Director David Cohen says a jihadist terror plot targeting a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, Austria, aimed to kill “tens of thousands” of people, including “many Americans.”
“They planned to kill a huge number of people, tens of thousands at this concert including, I’m sure, many Americans,” Cohen said. “The Austrians were able to [arrest the suspects] because the [CIA] and our partners in the intelligence community provided them information about what this ISIS-connected group was planning to do,”
Concerts planned for August 8, 9, and 10 in the European capital were all canceled after the plot was uncovered. Initially, two Austrian citizens with Turkish and Croatian backgrounds were arrested in connection with the scheme, followed by an 18-year-old Iraqi immigrant.
Young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance and yoga class in Southport, England, were targeted in a mass stabbing by a migration-background teenager on July 29. Three were killed, and several others were left in critical condition. Two adult female teachers and a man in his sixties who tried to stop the attacker were also injured. However, the authorities have not identified the attack, which sparked widespread anti-immigration demonstrations and counter-demonstrations, as terrorism.
In 2017, a jihadist suicide bomber attacked an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, killing 22 and injuring over 1,000. Many of the victims were minors and their parents, with the youngest fatality being an eight-year-old girl.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Deputy Director David Cohen says a jihadist terror plot targeting a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, Austria, aimed to kill "tens of thousands" of people, including "many Americans."
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The populist Austrian Freedom Party (FPOe) released its election manifesto on Wednesday, calling for the “remigration” of illegal immigrants, failed asylum seekers, and those who take advantage of Austria’s social benefits to their home countries. Firebrand FPOe leader Herbert Kickl has introduced the platform just a month before Austrians go to the polls in the European Union member’s national elections, stating, “These invaders want to harm us, endanger our security and our prosperity.”
Kickl made it clear that the immigrants he referred to were not those who had come to Austria to become productive members of society and successfully integrated. He also promised no new taxes and various tax cuts, plus savings on social services.
Remigration policies have been adopted by other populists in Europe, including the Sweden Democrats, who proposed striping citizenship from immigrants who refuse to integrate.
“The Austrian family, with a liberal chancellor as a good family man, should be able to flourish and develop its potential in Fortress Austria, Fortress Freedom,” Kickl said.
The FPOe are often labeled “liberal” in Austria due to their classical liberal economic policies and support for classical liberal freedoms, such as private firearms ownership.
Another significant proposal in the FPOe manifesto is support for more direct democracy, giving the general public the ability to dismiss an incompetent government through a referendum, which he describes as a vote of no confidence from the people.
The FPOe currently dominates the polls going into next month’s elections and is projected to place first, but whether they can form a government with the center-right Austrian People’s Party (OeVP) remains to be seen.
The populist Austrian Freedom Party (FPOe) released its election manifesto on Wednesday, calling for the "remigration" of illegal immigrants, failed asylum seekers, and those who take advantage of Austria's social benefits to their home countries. Firebrand FPOe leader Herbert Kickl has introduced the platform just a month before Austrians go to the polls in the European Union member's national elections, stating, "These invaders want to harm us, endanger our security and our prosperity."
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Taylor Swift has been forced to abandon concerts in Vienna, Austria after police uncovered an Islamic State-linked terror plot involving three teenagers. Bomb material was found at the home of the alleged ringleader. Vienna police released information on the teenagers, two of whom were arrested on Wednesday. Taylor Swift was set to perform on Thursday.
The plot’s ringleader, a 19-year-old born with Austrian citizenship but born in North Macedonia, is said to be a radical Muslim who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in July. Investigators say they found explosives, knives, machetes, and 21,000 euros in counterfeit money during searches of his home.
He is said to have been radicalized online and used encrypted messaging apps to communicate with the other suspects, aged 17 and 15. The 17-year-old is an Austrian citizen with a Turkish and Croatian background and was employed at a company that provided services at concerts. The 15-year-old is said to have been involved in preparations for the attack, but he was only questioned, not arrested.
Austrian authorities say the attack was likely to occur outside of the concert as people gathered, with the 19-year-old intending to blow himself up. A similar attack was carried out in Manchester, England, at an Ariana Grande concert, leaving 22 dead and over a thousand injured, including many children.
The Vienna plot comes just months after a mass killing of concert-goers in Moscow, Russia, blamed on ISIS-K, an Islamic State offshoot. This attack saw 130 people killed.
It also comes just over a week after the fatal stabbing of three young girls aged six, seven, and nine at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, in the United Kingdom. The suspect in these killings, which have sparked nationwide protests, is the son of two African migrants.
Taylor Swift has been forced to abandon concerts in Vienna, Austria after police uncovered an Islamic State-linked terror plot involving three teenagers. Bomb material was found at the home of the alleged ringleader. Vienna police released information on the teenagers, two of whom were arrested on Wednesday. Taylor Swift was set to perform on Thursday.
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According to a Eurobarometer survey published Friday, Austrians view illegal migration as the EU’s biggest challenge, surpassing concerns about the Russia-Ukraine war and climate change alarmism. Nearly half of Austrian respondents prioritized migration issues over other global issues.
The Eurobarometer flash survey 550, conducted from June 25 to July 2, 2024, surveyed 25,658 EU citizens online among the 27 Member States. Across the EU, 50 percent of respondents identified the Ukraine war as their primary concern, followed by migration and environmental issues.
Despite these worries, about two-thirds of EU citizens, including Austrians, express concern about the EU’s security over the next five years.
However, 58 percent of Europeans remain optimistic about the EU’s future, while 37 percent are pessimistic. Approximately half believe the EU economy will perform well in the coming years, though the other half are doubtful.
Austria is heading into a national election on September 29 as the populist Freedom Party (POe) led by firebrand Herbert Kickl continues to dominate recent polls. Kickl, who previously served as Austrian Interior Minister from 2017 to 2019, is totally opposed to mass migration, creating a campaign in 2023 dubbed “Fortress Austria” in which he called for border walls to be erected along Austria’s borders at immigration “pressure points.”
Concerns across Europe regarding illegal immigration, as evidenced by the Eurobarometer survey, have led to a surge popularity of other populist parties, particularly among young people.
In Germany, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) was reported as being the most popular party among those aged 14 to 29. Similar trends have been seen in France, where Marine Le Pen’s National Rally garnered nearly a third of the youth vote earlier this year in the European Parliament elections.
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According to a Eurobarometer survey published Friday, Austrians view illegal migration as the EU’s biggest challenge, surpassing concerns about the Russia-Ukraine war and climate change alarmism. Nearly half of Austrian respondents prioritized migration issues over other global issues.
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Austria’s populist Freedom Party (FPOe) is set to announce its candidate list this week. The party is dominating the European Union (EU) member’s polls, with national elections slated for September 29.
Led by populist firebrand Herbert Kickl, the Freedom Party currently stands at 27.2 percent support, with the establishment right Austrian People’s Party (OeVP) and the leftist Social Democrats (SPOe) trailing behind at 22.8 percent and 21.4 percent, respectively.
The FPOe has led the polls in Austria for months and finished first in the European Parliament elections earlier this year.
When the FPOe is strong, it pulls the OeVP to right, and FPOe leader Kickl previously served as Austria’s Interior Minister in a coalition with the OeVP from 2017 to 2019. He was and was known for being tough on illegal immigration during his tenure.
HERBERT KICK: ANTI-WAR, ANTI-MASS MIGRATION ORBAN ALLY.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kickl became a vocal critic of the Austrian government’s lockdown policies, which at one point saw the government consider fining or imprisoning adults for not taking the vaccine. Kickl addressed thousands at various anti-lockdown rallies.
Kickl is likely to reimplement his anti-mass migration policies heading into the election, exemplified by a 2023 campaign he launched called ‘Fortress Austria’, which called for border walls to be erected along immigration “pressure points.”
On the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia, Kickl has defended Austria’s traditional posture as a neutral state. He walked out of a speech at the Austrian parliament by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, arguing it violated Austria’s principles of neutrality.
The FPOe under Kickl has also forged an alliance with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, helping to found the Patriots for Europe group, now the European Parliament’s third-largest force.
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Austria's populist Freedom Party (FPOe) is set to announce its candidate list this week. The party is dominating the European Union (EU) member's polls, with national elections slated for September 29.
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Nationalist and populist political parties will enter 2024 hoping for a bumper election year. Over the course of the year, 40 national elections will occur, representing 41 percent of the global population, and 42 percent of global gross domestic product.
If 2016 seemed like a populist-nationalist year to remember, 2024 could easily surpass it. Here are the most critical elections to watch for in 2024:
European Parliament: June 6-9, 2024
The European Union’s 27 member states will head to the polls in early June, choosing their representation at the supranational, globalist European Parliament. Typically already an election which attracts massive “protest votes,” Europe’s worsening migrant crisis will naturally push voters to the right, a concern already top of mind for European Union (EU) apparatchiks like Josep Borrell.
Recent victories for nationalist and populist parties in Italy, Finland, the Netherlands, and Sweden also underscore a snowballing backlash against European elites over their embrace of open borders. The Identity and Democracy group, a bloc of eurosceptic and nationalist parties from 10 different European nations, appears poised to challenge the Liberals for position as the third largest voting block in the European Parliament. This is no small feat, given how heavily the deck is stacked against them by European Parliamentary authorities.
Continued economic stagnation, discontent over the accelerating migrant crisis, persistent warmongering, and general disenfranchisement could manifest a new, tectonic shift in European Union politics.
America, November 5, 2024.
Former President Donald Trump continues to pull ahead of Democrat incumbent Joe Biden. Much like Europe, the crisis at the U.S. southern border is fueling a voter backlash against Democrats nationally. Alongside a weak economy throughout 2023/24, as well as soaring crime and intensifying culture wars, America is evidently looking for a change. Biden’s approval ratings are lower than Trump’s at the same point in his first term, and nearly eight in 10 Americans say the country is on the wrong track.
Early polling also indicates Trump leads Biden in all but one of the critical 2024 swing states, with Biden yet to faces the additional headwinds from an advancing Congressional impeachment inquiry into his abuses of office and public corruption. Also of great concern for the 81-year old Democrat is growing discontent over the Ukraine-Russia war, the Israel-Hamas War, and indeed his popularity amongst minority voters.
In the hopes of heading off a Trump victory in 2024, the Biden regime has launched an unprecedentedlaw-farecampaign against the near-certain Republican nominee. If elected, Trump has indicated his intent to use his second term to kneecap America’s “deep state” – using tools like the Schedule F designation to remove career federal bureaucrats.
One critical issue facing the U.S. electorate, however, is the integrity of the nation’s ballot processes. Long viewed as the “international observers”, the U.S. has fallen behind other nations in prioritizing election integrity, paper ballots, same day voting, and same day counting. Instead, America’s elections are plagued by weeks of mail-in voting, machine errors, and state-level denialism of such problems. These issues have routinely been exploited, predominantly by the political left, at both a local and national level.
The United Kingdom (by Jan 2025).
Though it will likely occur in 2024, the manner in which the UK holds its elections is somewhat quirky, with the nation having tried the idea of a “fixed term Parliament” before reverting to a looser system whereby the Prime Minister can advise the Monarch to dissolve parliament at any point within a five year period.
Polls indicate the governing “Conservative” Party is likely to lose its functioning majority in Parliament to the Labour Party, which hasn’t been in power since the end of the war-hungry Blair/Brown regime of 1997-2010.
Populists enjoyed great influence in British politics through much of the Conservatives’ years in office, with the Damoclean sword of Nigel Farage’s UK Independence Party (UKIP) forcing then-Prime Minister David Cameron to offer a referendum on leaving the EU – a plebiscite which was won by a 52-48 margin. Farage then went on to set up the Brexit Party, to ensure Britain actually left the EU.
Now reconstituted as the Reform Party, the organization has been a victim of its own success, sinking in the polls, and struggling to cut through outside the viewership of the less-left-wing ‘GB News’ channel.
The Conservatives, meanwhile, have squandered their majority, allowing the public tax burden to increase, boosting mass immigration, and supporting more wars around the world.
Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is likely to further promote mass migration, climate change alarmism, and tax-hiking policies, a notion which has led Farage to seriously consider a return to frontline politics in order to stave off the country’s further decline.
Belgium Might Disappear.
The European Parliament elections will be closely followed by a federal election in Belgium, which French wartime leader Charles De Gaulle disparaged as “a country invented by the British to annoy the French.” The nation’s status as the EU institutions’ main center of power grants it outsized importance – and the 2024 elections could set it on a path to breaking up altogether.
Belgium is divided between French-speaking Wallonia to the south and Dutch-speaking Flanders to the north, with the EU and national capital of Brussels a Francophone enclave inside the latter. The country often goes for long periods without an elected parliament, as rival parties from the two regions struggle to hammer out coalition agreements. In Flanders, the populist Flemish independentist party Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) is currently prospering at the expense of the establishment right.
Vlaams Belang’s growing appeal is driven by public dissatisfaction over a worsening migrant crisis, in a country already home to notorious no-go zones. Leader Tom Van Grieken has described the Belgian state as a “forced marriage,” and a strong election result could enable him to make good on a pledge to secure an “orderly division” of the country – or, if necessary, unilateral secession.
And So Much More.
With around forty national elections taking place in 2024, nationalist and populist parties will likely be competitive in both national and regional elections in Austria, India, South Korea, Romania, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Slovakia, Finland, Croatia, and further afield.
Taiwan will face a close national election between the liberal Democratic Progressive Party, the nationalist Kuomintang, and the populist Taiwan People’s Party. Russia and Ukraine are poised to face potentially impactful elections too. The National Pulse will be providing further insight as each election grows nearer.
The National Pulse will be here to cover it all. Make sure you have the free app and turn on notifications to stay informed. Will Upton, Jack Montgomery, and Raheem Kassam contributed to this report.
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Nationalist and populist political parties will enter 2024 hoping for a bumper election year. Over the course of the year, 40 national elections will occur, representing 41 percent of the global population, and 42 percent of global gross domestic product.
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Basic border controls introduced by the German government on its borders with Poland, Austria, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic have reduced illegal immigration by more than 40 percent within just one month.
Data released by the German federal police shows the number of illegal migrants entering the country fell to just 300 per day compared to over 700 last month. In the month proceeding October 16, there were a total of 18,492 illegal crossings registered, whereas that figure fell to 11,029 a month later.
The reduction was achieved by German authorities simply checking the papers of those attempting to enter the country, despite the remonstrations and resistance of the country’s far-left coalition government, comprised of the Greens and Chancellor Olaf Scholz‘s Social Democrats.
The reduction “clearly demonstrates how indispensable border controls currently are,” said Saxony’s CDUI Interior Minister Armin Schuster. “With the notified border controls, even our expectations are significantly exceeded.”
He continued, stating the results were a “miserable testimony to the functionality of the Schengen system.”
Germany, alongside other European nations, has begun ramping up border control and security in the wake of Hamas’ violent incursion into Israel in October. Chancellor Scholz has announced his intentions to see the number of deportations increase while also reducing the number of people entering the country.
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Basic border controls introduced by the German government on its borders with Poland, Austria, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic have reduced illegal immigration by more than 40 percent within just one month.
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Sounders of wild boar living in Southern Germany and Austria have become radioactive following nuclear testing that took place in the 1950s and 1960s, according to a recent study published in the Environmental Science and Technology journal. The revelation dispells the original notion that animals began carrying high levels of the radioactive isotope cesium-137 after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.
The study, conducted by German and Austrian scientists and researchers, measured cesium levels in boar meat from Bavaria in Southern Germany using a gamma ray detector to learn from where the high radioactive came.
The researchers found that up to 68 percent of radioactive contamination came from international nuclear testing as they knew a higher ratio of celsium-135 and celsium-137 is inactive of nuclear testing rather than being emitted from reactors.
They also discovered that 88 percent of the meat samples used, which were widely available to purchase and consume, exceeded the safety limit for radioactivity in food. The researchers even concluded: “Once released, radio cesium will remain in the environment for generations and impact food safety immediately and… for decades.”
“It is a cautionary tale that the long-forgotten atmospheric nuclear weapons tests and their fallout still cast a shadow on the environment,” said Georg Steinhauser, who participated in the research.
“Just because they took place 60 years ago doesn’t mean that they no longer impact the ecosystem,” he added.
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Sounders of wild boar living in Southern Germany and Austria have become radioactive following nuclear testing that took place in the 1950s and 1960s, according to a recent study published in the Environmental Science and Technology journal. The revelation dispells the original notion that animals began carrying high levels of the radioactive isotope cesium-137 after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.
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The European Union (EU) has suspended its foreign aid payments to Palestinian territories following Hamas’ terrorist incursion into Israel this weekend. The bloc announced it would be putting €691 million ($728 million) worth of humanitarian aid “under review” on Monday morning.
Oliver Varhelyi, the European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, took to X (formerly Twitter) to explain that in addition to all EU payments being suspended, all ongoing projects would be placed under review, all new budget proposals will be postponed, and an assessment of the “whole portfolio” will be undertaken.
•All payments immediately suspended. •All projects put under review. •All new budget proposals, incl. for 2023 postponed until further notice. •Comprehensive assessment of the whole portfolio.
The move follows the decision of the German government to cease aid payments until there has been a “comprehensive” examination into how the money was being allocated by the Palestinian regime.
The Austrian government announced a similar move, with Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg telling a national radio station, “The extent of the terror is so horrific . . . that we cannot go back to business as usual.”
The EU has provided aid to Hamas for a number of years despite labeling Hamas, the organization governing Gaza, a “terrorist organization.”
This story is developing…
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The European Union (EU) has suspended its foreign aid payments to Palestinian territories following Hamas' terrorist incursion into Israel this weekend. The bloc announced it would be putting €691 million ($728 million) worth of humanitarian aid "under review" on Monday morning.
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