Austria’s far-right Freedom Party could win a national election for the first time when Austria votes on Sunday. It is tapping into voters’ anxieties about immigration, inflation, Ukraine and other concerns following recent gains for the hard right elsewhere in Europe.
FILE - Herbert Kickl, leader of Austria n Freedom Party , arrives for the traditional FPOE May day event at the Urfahraner fair in Linz, Austria , May 1, 2024. FILE - Herbert Kickl, leader of Austria n Freedom Party , arrives for the traditional FPOE May day event at the Urfahraner fair in Linz, Austria , May 1, 2024. FILE - Herbert Kickl, leader of Austria n Freedom Party , arrives for the traditional FPOE May day event at the Urfahraner fair in Linz, Austria , May 1, 2024.
Still, Kickl has achieved a turnaround since Austria’s last election in 2019. In June, the Freedom Party narrowly won a nationwide vote for the first time in the4 people found dead in eastern Romania as rainstorms leave hundreds strandedPolice say the gunman killed in Munich had fired at the Israeli Consulate
In its election program, the Freedom Party calls for “remigration of uninvited foreigners,” and for achieving a more “homogeneous” nation by tightly controlling borders and suspending the right to asylum via an “emergency law.” The Freedom Party also calls for an end to sanctions against Russia, is highly critical of western military aid to Ukraine and wants to bow out of the European Sky Shield Initiative, a missile defense project launched by Germany.
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