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© Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Left-winger wins Austrian presidential vote
By GEORGE JAHN VIENNA©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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CrazyJoe
Austrians took one look at what happened in the US where an ignorant, bigoted, xenophobic, unstable buffoon and con man won and said 'no way.' Good for the Austrians.
Tony Alderman
Disappointing news.
Zodiac
Good for Austria no right wing sillyness tough I am not sold on green parties.
Mike L
Seems the recent political madness hasn't spread out of the English-speaking world. Phew.
Outrider
EU totters on. The inevitable is simply delayed.
Citizen2012
Good for Austria and for their voters for not falling for the right wing xenophobe hysteria...
goldorak
I think ppl are reading too much into these results.
Lefts and greens all around the world have adopted populist measures they would have condemned 15 years ago so imo 'populist ideas' as we call them are still on the rise, so much so that even left/greens know they have to integrate them in their program if they want to exist at elections. (As an example labor in oz in 2016 is more populist than most euro conservative parties were say 15 years ago. And it's true for many other western democracies).
Aly Rustom
Congrats to Austria for not falling for a xenophobic racist nightmare politician. good work.
Remember the english speaking world has Canada's Justine Trudeau- arguably the world's most admired politician today.
Pukey2
And the Italians looked at what happened in the US.....and decided they wanted some of that!
bass4funk
Something that they will greatly regret. The problem with Austria and the constant scolding they get from Brussels is more than enough to have the average Austrian throw their hands up in the air and say, "No more!" They'll learn the hardware. I feel bad for the people and the idiot racist politicians they have to deal with.
wtfjapan
EU totters on. The inevitable is simply delayed. nah the EU will be around for a long while yet. UK doesn't stand a chance of free market access while the EU still exists. When or if the EU is dismantled, there wont be any UK manufacturing left that isnt taxpayer subsidised. The Brexit wet dream is just that.
Aly Rustom
only they didn't. anyway, time will tell if they will regret this decision or not.
Rana Sodhi
Bass4funk,Austria's capital is Vienna not Brussels.
turbotsat
The EU can't scold Austria?
SenseNotSoCommon
Do pay attention, b4f.
They just voted not to deal with idiot racist politicians.
turbotsat
Austria. Popn 8.7M people. Less than New Jersey, more than Virginia.
SenseNotSoCommon
Point?
lucabrasi
Tiny indeed. Only about four times more than Trump lost the popular vote by.
turbotsat
You forgot to subtract the estimated 3M non-citizens voting illegally, that gives Trump a net +200K.
thetoleratedone
Yes it is good but I do not like the racist islamaphobic right but I do not like the femoliberal abortionist left either.
A.N. Other
Not really. Neither of the two mainstream politicians were elected, so the election was still a kick in the pants for 'more of the same'. That said, the EU does tend to favour the German-speaking world, so I would expect Austrians to remain broadly pro-EU.
SenseNotSoCommon
Estimated (but not substantiated) by a bunch of partial academics.
Back on topic, Austria voted against far right populism. Gut gemacht!
turbotsat
It was a few percentage points difference, in a tiny country. Not a tide of leftist populism sweeping the European Union into a new age.
Yoshitsune
Funk,
Oh they dealt with him alright, by not electing him. He's accepted it graciously and lives to fight another day of course.
Stat,
There you go again repeating Trump's completely unsubstantiated, evidence-free alt right conspiracy theory propaganda nonsense, ad nauseum.
Obviously, no one is suggesting anything of the sort. Rather, this was an electorate rejecting a tide of rightist populism.
I have no idea why you're banging on about Austria's size.
turbotsat
On the other hand, had it gone the other way I guess it would have elicited the drums of Mordor at the gates or something.
@AP
'Van der Bellen said -as- he cast his ballot'
Jimizo
Rightist trash spitting bigotry defeated in an election.
How very civilised.
u_s__reamer
Sharing the same homeland as the Godfather of all right-wingers, Adolf Hitler, there are still enough sensible Austrians who reject turning the clock back and embracing any modern, milder variant of his bankrupt ideology. Let's hope this is the start of a new trend to roll back the vicious politics of the right that have fooled too many people since the abortive demise of fascism in 1945.
lostrune2
No right-wing neo-nazi?
SenseNotSoCommon
Contrasted with the popular vote in your own?
(minus the three million aliens from Uranus who voted for Hillary)
Straight Shooter
Adolf Hitler was left-wing, not right-wing!
bass4funk
They're part of the EU, right? So as I said before, as long as the people have to rely on Brussels telling them what to do, the country will continue its downward spiral.
One can only hope!
So very, very true.
lostrune2
Neo-Nazism though is far right-wing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_nazi