The far right has achieved a historic victory in Austria, according to poll projections

Wrestle the ultra-nationalist FPÖfrom the extreme right, this Sunday won the parliamentary elections in Austria for the first time, achieving 29.1% of the voteaccording to the first projections based on real votes before the conservative ÖVP, which had 26.3%.

Ultranationalist Party a extreme right with its anti-immigration message and critical of measures taken by the current government, conservatives and environmentalists to control The covid-19 pandemic.

The Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), the leader of the outgoing executive, lost eleven points since the last election. According to this first calculation, which uses real votes as a basis, the social democratic SPÖ would be the third force with 20.9% (-0.3).

Liberal Neos (8.8%) and Greens (8.7%), who were also entering parliament minority partner people’s parties in government and that they are losing more than five points.

FPÖ, a party related to ultra-nationalist and far-right groups in Europe such as Brothers from Italy or Hungarian Fideszthereby achieving its best election result, even surpassing the historical leader Jörg Haider in 1999. On that occasion, the party, despite being the second most elected force, handed over the leadership of the government to the third ÖVP.

Kickl warned on the campaign trail that if he won the election, he would demand to be tasked with forming the executive. The rest of the parties have progressed in principle refusal to form a coalition with the FPÖ.

Herbert Kickl He is the leader of this party and he calls himself Volkskanzlerin Spanish “chancellor of the people”, he uses this title Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. For the first time in its history, the far right is leading the polls ahead of the conservative Austrian People’s Party and the Social Democrats (center left). However, neither side achieves a priori the absolute majoritynot even the FPÖ, which would barely get 30% of the vote in its most optimistic scenario. Coalitions will be necessary to govern, difficult for now.

One of the main themes of the campaign was migration, whose position is very close to the one he preaches Viktor Orbán in the neighboring country, Hungary. FPÖ He came to preach a return to “racial homogeneity.”

He proposes among his measures deportation of immigrants that break the law, reduce or ban asylum grants and admit fewer immigrants into the economy. Also the limitation of social benefits to native Austrians.

The war in Ukraine This is another of the strong reasons why Austrians were seduced by Kickl’s populism. His Russophile attitude criticizes the supply of weapons to Ukraineas their counterparts in the Netherlands and Hungary have already done. In fact, Austria and Hungary were the only countries that did not send weapons to Ukraine.

(News with information from EFE)