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Austria receives a chancellor who seems to be about as far to right of his party friend Angela Merkel as Vienna is from Berlin. The new vice Chancellor Strache surrounds himself with controversial figures such as Marine Le Pen or Geert Wilders. The Secretary of Defense published in right-wing magazine Aula, interior minister wrote rhymes on posters such as “Daham instead of Islam” or “more courage for our Viennese blood, too much stranger does not do any good to a party secretary.”
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Austria is facing five years of right-wing conservative politics. Right-wing extremism is not found in government program. The Conservatives and Strache mselves, it seems, have right edge of FPOe under control. The course in migration policy will be furr intensified. But it was far from cosmopolitan even under grand coalition.
As gloomy as situation for foreign countries and political opponents may appear in country, Austrian democracy could have needed precisely this government. To understand this, however, a different question must be answered first. How could it have come so far?
How short maybe you could steer back into middle
The situation in Austria can be compared with turbulence in an airplane. Most people have a queasy feeling when it starts to wobble in air. Over past few years Austria has been shaken up again and again, first financial, n euro crisis, more and more unemployed, rush of refugees, crisis of EU, terrorist attacks. All this in a traditionally inward-looking country that likes to push problems abroad and foreigners.
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Those who cannot rely on pilot in such a situation are easily panicked. For a long time, Austria was controlled by people who almost no one in country dared to do anything. They allowed fear and Pessismisus to spread.
Two scenarios for future of Austria
Under Sebastian Kurz ‘ predecessors at top of Christian was one more uninspiring than or. The former number two by Wolfgang Schüssel, nephew of a powerful ÖVP country chief, a quiet lower Austrian state official and an eternal economic chamberlain. Chancellor was over eight years Social Democrat Werner Faymann, whom hardly anyone in Austria mourns. Not because he would have been such a bad chancellor, but because his great coalition with ÖVP was inconceivably unprofessional and scoldeded in public for many years.
Faymann’s successor, Christian Kern, had quite a quiet hand; Briefly, who was minister in his government, but continued to undermine him. The more tactically skillful and ruthless of two prevailed.
And now? There are two scenarios for future of country.
In positive version briefly brings country to rest with his political talent; He shows that he wants not only power, but change, and makes boring ÖVP a modern party right of middle, which needs every democracy.
