Is another coalition featuring the far-right Austria Freedom Party likely in the country’s upcoming election?
In May, the coalition between the right-wing Austria People’s Party and the far-right Freedom Party of Austria collapsed after the latter found itself entangled in a scandal.
The FPO, which had been a junior coalition partner until the May collapse, is still hoping for a comeback in the upcoming legislative elections, slated to take place on September 29.“We extend a sincere hand to the conservatives to continue the work begun together to reform Austria,” Norbert Hofer, former presidential candidate for the FPO, recently told reporters.
Some experts have cast doubt on whether the FPO could successfully recover in the wake of the Ibiza scandal. “Both parties [OVP and FPO] still declare their commonalities and argue that the last coalition was a good one going in the right direction,” he said. Although the FPO failed to reenter the parliament for 12 years after 2005, the party clenched around 26 percent support during the 2017 legislative elections.Throughout 2018, however, the FPO landed in hot water several times.
The lyrics joked about “gassing” Jewish people, a reference to the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust. And despite the scandals, the FPO is still hovering at nearly 20 percent support, only six points down from the 2017 vote.
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