Last Sunday there were general elections in Austria – less than 2 years after the last one. I was ready to stay up all night to wait for a good projection of the final result. However, in the end, it was all very clear from the beginning, and now we have this here (Taken from wahl19.bmi.gv.at/ Note that we have a 4% hurdle to enter the parliament):
As expected, the old chancellor has won (turquoise), the green party is back in parliament and the small party JETZT, which essentially killed the green party at the last elections, did not survive this one. Rather unexpectedly, the (red) social democrats lost enough to make this the worst result in the party history.
Biggest surprise of the evening: The crash of the right-wingers (blue), who lost a whopping 10% and will probably not in the next government anymore. I am so thrilled! Because it means that we don’t have quite as many idiots in Austria as some people might want to believe. That’s definitely worth celebrating.
Not sure about the idiots, tbh. ÖVP and FPÖ have grown so close in basic ideologies that it was easy for Ex-FPÖ voters to move to ÖVP. But we can always hope…
Yes, there is always hope: The hope that the greatest idiots will become extinct eventually.