In the Corona hotspot Vienna, voting will take place in October.
The election campaign is turbulent.
The right-wing populists are facing a debacle - the ÖVP has got into trouble with a dispute over a "Hitler settlement".
Vienna
-
Austria's capital has
recently experienced turbulent days - Vienna became a corona hotspot.
There was also a travel warning from Germany.
But the metropolis is also involved in a sometimes fierce election campaign: On October 11, the
state parliament will be redefined
.
The focus of attention is also on the question of how the
right-wing populists will
fare: In 2015, the
FPÖ had reached
more than 30 percent - long before the Ibiza scandal.
This time the party also gets competition from its own camp: The highly controversial
Heinz-Christian "HC" Strache
competes
with his own list under the curious
abbreviation "THC"
.
However, the latest polls now indicate a fundamentally different result than in the previous election.
Vienna election: FPÖ threatens as well as Strache debacle - SPÖ undisputed front
A survey by the newspaper
today
and the TV station
ATV
see the
SPÖ
alone in their old stronghold - and at the top of the electoral favor.
The Social Democrats received 42 percent on the Sunday question.
Sebastian Kurz's ÖVP
, which at least comes in at 19 percent, albeit far behind,
should also be happy
.
In 2015, the party did not even break the 10 percent mark.
Warning, hot and greasy.
Giant survey together with @Heute_at on the Vienna election.
n = 1600, fluctuation range 2.4.
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- Manfred Schmid (@fredschmid) September 27, 2020
However, the prospects for the
FPÖ
and also for
Strache
are devastating
.
The result of the former could almost be pulverized: 9 percent would vote for the right-wing populists if the election took place now.
Despite the huge marketing machinery, Strache could even fail at the five percent hurdle: the result in
today's ATV
survey was
4 percent
.
The Greens could also be winners.
15 percent were measured for them.
Survey on the election in Vienna: Many undecided - but hardly any “potential” for Strache
According to
heute.at,
opinion researcher Peter Hajek
does not
see
the numbers set
in stone
: Around
130,000 voters are still undecided
- and the survey is not a forecast, but rather, as usual, represents the mood at the time of the survey.
Strache, Hajek admits, is the most difficult to assess.
There are definitely
chances of
entering the Vienna Parliament
.
But there are probably no longer any big surprises.
“There is almost no potential for the Strache team among the undecided,” Hajek emphasized.
HC Strache again in criticism before Vienna election - cleaning staff hired at party costs?
In addition, the scandal-ridden Strache is already having problems with the next affair.
According to a report by the
Kronen Zeitung,
there are again serious allegations: a
cleaner
apparently stated during an interrogation that she had been paid for cleaning at Strache by the FPÖ from 2013 to 2019.
“I received a monthly pay slip.
It said FPÖ on it, I can say that much, "she allegedly explained. Strache had only paid since the Ibiza affair.
The politician had previously been accused of having settled private expenses through the party - including payments in four-digit amounts for a mobile phone game.
Election in Vienna: Kurz Minister Blümel in distress - “grotesque” deletion after alleged Hitler comparison
But there are also problems for the
ÖVP candidate Gernot Blümel
.
Blümel - also finance minister in Sebastian Kurz's cabinet -
criticized
a comment by the
writer Robert Menasse
on his Facebook page
.
A little later, the author's criticism disappeared completely.
The ÖVP relied on the "netiquette" and an alleged
Hitler comparison
in Menasse's posting.
“Do you mean the time BEFORE red Vienna, when the city had an anti-Semitic mayor, from whom Hitler learned?” It said.
Menasse had been bothered by Blumel's demand to "bring Vienna forward again".
The well-known
ORF journalist Armin Wolf
criticized the process as "grotesque": "It must be clear to everyone in the ÖVP that the comment is still online and everyone can see for themselves how absurd this reason is." (Fn)
However, to justify the deletion of this posting by stating that all comments “with Nazi ideas” would be deleted is grotesque.
It must be clear to everyone in the ÖVP that the comment is still online and everyone can see for themselves how absurd this reason is.
pic.twitter.com/xIFbf3gFOy
- Armin Wolf (@ArminWolf) September 27, 2020
