The Austrian Chancellor RESIGNS - What Next? Elections?

[@jeroen857]

you forgot Belgium. Still not having a federal government

[@xenonn7275]

Netherlands is also still messy, with NSC that just refuses to accept they are in a coalition.

[@cgt3704]

And Romania where rhe elections were cancled and just recently the joint candidate of the governing parties announced his retreat from the elections.

[@kianlakchi7182]

Everything is as usual in Belgium, our governments always take near a year to form.

[@londegel]

That's not chaos, that's the regular way Belgium works

[@kaanpleb]

It would be pure chaos if belgium got a goverment

[@theli3x]

Since when Poland, Czechia and Baltic states became the most stable ones?

[@kostas1003]

Since there was fewer doctor and engineers imported

[@Dawnthensunset3839]

Oh like they just threw out those from the MidEast? Yeah that's how they are doing so well, Sweden is so behind them now

[@JaegerDreadful]

Because they are always 10 years behind the rest of Europe, which is working out well for them this time 😂 (I am obviously joking, I don't know why they are somehow more stable than most western european countries.)

[@ChristianDoretti]

Because they have less left wing voting base, not many people want social changes which are the ones that later lead to a revolt against immigration politics and investing in NGO’s and other logistics.

[@valyrias1625]

@@Dawnthensunset3839 behind in what excacly? security? yes Poland and Baltic states are more safe for citizens. did these countries do mass deportations? no. they just didnt have much imigrants from Mid East to begin with, because of poor economy/economy not being diverse enough. Remember that inn case of GDP, GDP per capita, welfare, democracy index, human development index, Sweden is doing way better. Of course I'm not saying that Poland, Lithuania, ect. aren't capable of achievieng such standards but still Sweden is statistically much more comfortable place to live in. So i dont really understand what you mean saying that "sweden is behind".

[@Motyy]

As an Austrian, there will be an FPÖVP government surely. And my guess is, that we will have new elections in 2026/7 already because they are not able to lead.

[@leom6624]

Schwachsinn.

[@Motyy]

@leom6624 war so bei deren letzter Regierungsphase (auch mit ÖVP) und sie bringen halt keine Lösungen. Sie zeigen dir nur ein Feindbild anstatt ordentlich normal Politik zu machen. Es wird keinen Fortschritt geben. Wir sehen uns in 2 Jahren bei Neuwahlen

[@sdaqo]

True a FPÖ government never held up one full term, they are totally unable to lead anyone. 😂

[@Motyy]

@leom6624 das letzte Mal, als sie in der Regierung waren, gab es Neuwahlen. Und auch sonst präsentieren sie nur Feindbilder aber keine nachhaltigen Lösungen.

[@Motyy]

​@leom6624 warum? Die FPÖ hats noch nie geschafft

[@Daniel_B4D4]

It's gonna be a coalition between FPÖ/ÖVP. 95%

[@mihailrangelov8343]

Which party will appoint the kanzler in such an arrangement?

[@eclipso6753]

@@mihailrangelov8343 Probably OVP or an independent like in The Netherlands, or if FPO then not Kickl

[@Daniel_B4D4]

@@eclipso6753 Pretty sure that Kickl will be Kanzler at this point

[@smileysan9261]

​@@mihailrangelov8343to be honest now that Nehammer is gone. I sadly could imagine Kickl as the Kanzler... It really depends on who will take over the ÖVP

[@eclipso6753]

@@Daniel_B4D4 Nah I think he'll be content with someone in from the right of the OVP to be chancellor then he taking on a major ministry or be vice chancellor. It all depends on who succeed Nehammer tbh

[@alx9r]

“Chaos is the new norm in European politics.” Yep, and it will be chaos until there are at least some parties with the competence to govern whose policies aren’t terrible.

[@JaegerDreadful]

It will be chaos until the next world war, probably like 2029-ish, then it will be war and after it will be fine.

[@jenshep1720]

it really is incredible how all the established parties screwed themselves up and the only people profiting from that are basically neo-nazis

[@mrintrovert5068]

If not until.

[@DenisHavlikVienna]

Well, FPÖ definitively doesn't fall in that category. Austria is f-ed for the foreseeable future.

[@kopkaljdsao]

HEY, Bulgaria is fine! Accepted into Schengen. Soon to adopt Euro. Multiple minimum wage increases. Some very politically sensitive tax changes got done automatically, no drama. If it stops working so well, we'll create a government.

[@lores996]

Bulgaria doing better WITHOUT a government than WITH 😂😂

[@Hardcore_Remixer]

​@@lores996 Bulgaria doing better without a guvernment than other countries with a government. As a Romanian, I feel ashamed of our politicians who keep enlarging their own pockets.

[@chrisrosenkreuz23]

@Hardcore_Remixer I heard about the Romanian elections and how a lot of people were so disillusioned with the regular thieves that they voted for a Russian puppet just cos he was not part of the old gang and was seemingly on the average Joe's side... It was such a sad story to know the folks that were doing so out of patriotism were the ones that were outright selling their own country to the Kremlin...

[@tobiasbauer198]

Nobody needs a minimum wage in an working economy

[@kopkaljdsao]

@@tobiasbauer198 Bulgaria has a demographic crisis, brain drain problem and lowest gdp per capita in the EU. No people. No skilled people. No capital. No known economic model can make Bulgaria a highly productive economy. Long term, yes in 10-20 years conditions can change. Short and medium term it's all about stability, responsible spending and pain management. Minimum wage increases target tax crime. It's never a "living wage".

[@4tech404]

As a romanian, I am indeed delighted.

[@reapervalentin9167]

same here

[@biblecampvictim]

cry is free

[@zebrother]

as an Austrian I am also delighted since no one even voted for this guy in the first place. But I am not delighted to see a far-right nut job as our next chancellor

[@Lunarpenguin-d1s]

Dont be. Nehammer is the moderate here. The fpö and kurz hate you guys even more.

[@soundscape26]

Austrians are also delighted they have a much better standards of living than Romania

[@triceratops7084]

Greece is surprisingly stable

[@captainvanisher988]

Greece has a victor wins all election type. It would be unstable if it had a similar election system as Austria because no parties want to work with each other, besides the right wing once perhaps (except New Democracy, which is nowadays a centrist one)

[@patskats4859]

It only happens because our prime minister basically has no opponents. And because he is a good boy towards USA

[@patskats4859]

That only happens because our prime minister basically has no opponents. And because he is a good boy towards USA

[@patskats4859]

That only happens because our prime minister basically has no opponents. And because he is a good boy towards USA

[@omega6749]

Italy as well.

[@muli166]

ÖVP is Center right to far right

[@popasmurf6834]

We are better off without these governments... we need a new system without leaders or parties

[@ANDR0iD]

6:40 All of these accusations are pretty everyday in Hungary (not as accusations, but facts) , but we don't see anybody from FIDESZ resigning over them... Things like this always remind me of what we don't have in Hungary. Cheerish what broken politics you have, because it can always get worse.

[@Skaris1506]

thats why it is very dangerous giving FPÖ power they like what orban is done and hold on his power do you know who they also like? Putin and how he is ruling russia less free media more propaganda get citizens brainwashed to vote for them and rightnow our government is failing which helps FPÖ to more votes sadly

[@matthiasleiss4807]

The last hopes are perishing in Austria rn

[@peterbalogh8138]

Strange, then, that Orban keeps on being re-elected with 2/3 majority, and wins every kind of election , be it general, local municipal, EU, anything... so people don't give a damn about phony accusations, but consider their OWN better perspectives, rather than believing the biased liberal mainstraim propaganda.

[@Nick-exZ]

Funny enough, here in Serbia we envy how good Hungary has it with its meager political scandals (in comparison), there are massive protests going on rn to try and overthrow Vučić's regime of terror. If it succeeds, perhaps we can see other European regimes start feeling the pressure of the people.

[@benedekgabor.]

@@Nick-exZI don’t support violience, but the sad truth is that these dickheads will not go away just because people are protesting on the streets. They will do everything to hold onto power.

[@Nice.81912]

1:51 small mistake here: the FPÖ didn't actually get the first shot at forming a government, the austrian president appointed the ÖVP with that task since he himself isn't a fan of the FPÖ - and well ÖVP was unable to form a coalition since Nehammer didn't want to work with Kickl and the Greens/SPÖ also didn't come to good terms - now it's between the FPÖ getting the task to form a government or new elections (just as mentioned in the video) Other than that, great summary and best regards from austria :)

[@Motyy]

Nope, VDB didnt give the ÖVP the Regierungsbildungsauftrag because he isn't a fan of the FPÖ. He gave it to them because the FPÖ wasn't able to form a coalition with any party back then. He would have given it to the FPÖ if any party would have wanted to legislate with them.

[@liamltb8752]

@@Motyyall cause Nehammer wanted to be Chancellor, no matter what - disregarding the people’s vote for a centre-right government

[@Motyy]

@@liamltb8752 no, 70% didnt vote FPÖ. Nehammer just wanted to protect Austria from crazy Verschwörungstheoretikern

[@Motyy]

​@@liamltb8752 no, Nehammer wanted to protect Austria from extreme rights and always remember that 70% didnt vote them

[@liamltb8752]

@ Nehammer was never elected by anyone - all he cared about was power, never for our people

[@kaanpleb]

5:03 this is a bit of a hiccup. He said "Wirtschaftsfeindlich" which means hostile toward the economy, not business. Hostile to business would more align with the word "Geschäftsfeindlich."

[@Jurjen.]

Again, please show also with which EU party these Austrian parties are members at.

[@danielspirek9933]

FPO is in patriots

[@Jurjen.]

@danielspirek9933 Tnx but I'd like to see this information standard in the vids 🙂

[@friendly-x8p]

Neos: Renew Europe Greens: Greens ÖVP: European people's party FPÖ: Patriots SPÖ: Social democrats

[@EUMadeSimple]

Yes! I forgot sorry. Thanks for the reminder.

[@DenisHavlikVienna]

​@@danielspirek9933"patriots", lol. That's like the organisation of mass murderers calling itself "doctors".

[@reschi56]

1:52 "the freedom party got the first shot at forming one" This is wrong, the Green president didn't give it to them which was a minor scandal in Austria because usually the biggest party gets the first shot to start coalltion talks and this minor scandal also made the freedom party even more popular.

[@ThePuma1707]

If you already know nobody is willing to form a coalition with them, whats the point of giving them the mandate other than wasting time

[@ImperialDiecast]

@@ThePuma1707 more like you dont trust the övp so you wont even give it to kickl assuming nobody will step up. and the intuition was right. now look at what the övp is ready to do. vdb must remain stalwart or it would undo everything he did till now.

[@GM-gb1eu]

@@ThePuma1707 In Poland, there was the same situation one year ago. In Poland, usually, the winner (PiS, in this example) should try to form the government first. And they had a chance. Obviosly, it didn't work, but they had a chance. This is just another political battle. President shouldn't be like this.

[@luisevieten2035]

Europe would be better of if the Habsburgs would govern Austria again, as for a Long time they supported the pan european movement. Only half joking.

[@lores996]

Same Habsburg who started WW1? No thanks. Monarchies should be abolished, not reinstated...

[@TheWhiterock38]

This notion that every people deserve a nation has outlasted its usefulness, we need to restore the Austro-Hungarian Empire

[@Aerostarm]

I only half-disagree with you lol

[@prsancho]

Churchill agreed with you.

[@petr1079]

As someone from the Czech Republic, I regret the dissolution of the common state of Austria-Hungary. It should have been reformed instead. The 20th century in Europe could have been completely different.

[@Kevin-fq3zh]

well, at least none of party leaders are failed art school students. that’s a massive relief

[@Pertinaxman]

rassism is still strong in austria

[@VINCENTBUTZ6]

And as soon Austria gets mentioned, someone must do a bad Hitler joke!

[@indianaskyrunner449]

Well, Kickl is a failed history, philosophy and political science student, kinda surprising he didn´t try art school.

[@wosemo]

@indianaskyrunner449 did not know that, but the failing at history is quite apparent

[@Kevin-fq3zh]

@indianaskyrunner449 🤣🤣🤣👍🏻

[@erenaslan5316]

Most Austrians do (according to various pools) want a millionaires tax and inheritance tax but Neos and ÖVP strongly opposed that while SPÖ wanted it. Neos also wanted to make the age for getting pension longer and SPÖ didn't want that. Most people voting for SPÖ were already disappointed that they would make too many compromises and most agreements seemed to be in favour for Neos and ÖVP anyway so I think it's very dumb to blame SPÖ for this right now when in reality, parts of ÖVP just wanted to throw the coalition progress away so they don't have to hurt their millionaire friends. Neos was just illogical and idk what their problem was, they already got a lot in favour for them considering they "only" got 9% in the election...

[@erenaslan5316]

I am from Austria btw🇦🇹 that's why I'm talking about it

[@nasir_og]

Thx for clearing things up

[@matthiasleiss4807]

Yeah totally. The blame on the SPÖ from Nehammer was purely party politics to attract voters. He himself probably was fine with compromises but the more rightwing groups in the ÖVP weren't. For me the blame is on the rightwing group within the ÖVP that wanted to cooperate with the FPÖ rather than concessions to the liberals. And also the NEOS were pretty foolish to think that they had any sort of power to come with reformation opinions against the much bigger conservative ÖVP and SPÖ. The SPÖ chief Andreas Babler talked about this yesterday and explained how he felt Nehammer wanted but couldn't because of his party.

[@itsjustme114]

no, you just made that up lol

[@YuriDSC]

How many elections you must see this year, to figure out that polls are a joke?

[@latviabalkanumuzika1514]

Greetings from Latvia 🇱🇻

[@mimisor66]

Seems politics all over Europe has gone crazy...

[@Jayhannes]

Wow you really pronounce the names very well

[@Dashusikt]

Listening to this from Austria really hurts

[@fuerstmetternich1997]

As an Austrian I am delighted.

[@Αντρέας-γ3ζ]

Fpo is 37% right now, it's just matter of time

[@TheWhiterock38]

Gotta love his left-wing bias and negative attitude towards them. Gotta love his tone when he said "gender Ideology" saying it like it isn't real, in my country men can compete in women's sports, fight women, and use their bathroom all because the ruling class is allowing it. It's a very real thing

[@matthiasleiss4807]

Kickl will be next chancelor im pretty certain. A new vote would only give him more power.

[@UltimateRaven41]

Regarding the NEOS, they are the reform party, which would like to reform the education system as well as other topics like bureaucratic, transparency, etc.

[@Skeleman]

There needs to be a people's assembly, with its members directly chosen from the citizenry at random. Liberal Democracy is unstable and all the actors care more about image and rhetoric than solutions. More referendums, more direct democracy, and more public control of the economy.

[@nexxuzthenoble]

the fpö did NOT get the first shot at forming a government.

[@Stiegelzeine]

That’s what happens when your party is radicalized and is not accepted by the people or the other party’s , they wouldn’t need coalitions if their party was professional while very peaceful that they reach 50% by themself

[@nexxuzthenoble]

@Stiegelzeine not accepted by the people? They got the most votes, 1/3rd i think. The people want fpö. Övp now trying to form a coalition with fpö after saying they will not do that is only to prevent reelections because they know fpö gained much support the past few months. In case of reelection the fpö would be more powerful than before.

[@nexxuzthenoble]

@Stiegelzeine radicalized? Look at sll the other parties basically calling fpö and all it's supporters devils. Banning their voices by not giving them the first shot at forming a government. The left parties love to call everyone they simply don't like "a threat do our democrazy" when all the left is doing is stabbing democrazy and trampling it while it's on the floor bleeding.

[@softwarerat4659]

One 3rd is one 3rd. Mathematicly not even the half, meaning more than half of austrias People wo could vote, do not want them(by voting other parties) ​@@nexxuzthenoble

[@nexxuzthenoble]

@@softwarerat4659 majority and overall majority are 2 different things. fact is the majority opinion of the people and therefore their vote was ignored by the opposition party's president throwing democrazy in the trash.

[@cgt3704]

We just joined Schengen and news couldnt get any better

[@bannerjay3347]

As an Austrian this is the delightful drawback of having the proportional system, while we do not deal with unfair bullshit like in France or the UK with their "constituential seats", this is the result of giving everyone their fair share. This was to be honest in my opinion to be expected and the only option now really is ÖVP-FPÖ, new elections but I doubt they would change anything and just put the power in a ÖVP-FPÖ even more to the FPÖ or to perhaps form a government of independents for a year like it was under Brigitte Bierlein. I see no other realistic thing for this country. In my opinion the best one would be the government of independents but I doubt that our President is going to do that. Oh well, I am interested to see how this is going to end and the funny thing is that I only got the right to vote last August, meaning that if we had reelections I would have gotten to use that right 2 times already in such a short time, dont know what to think of that

[@fuerstmetternich1997]

You will see that it will be a successful government. I am quite optimistic.

[@persiathiest1963]

The current immigration policies are dumb. Merits and qualifications play very little role in getting permanent residency or citizenship. I hope this is going to change.

[@legendofminecraft6310]

In Greece, the ruling New Democracy Party is the only one that is still stable, every other party is kind of....uhh.....in chaos. Changing leaders in a snap of a finger all the time, disagreements within the partys for ideologies. And the thing is, with no proper opposition, the rulling party is left uncheck, and with their popularity dropping if they become unstable too, get ready for Greece joining the club too. Only the far left party is also stable, but its literally a communist party, and I dont wanna see them get popular.

[@Eshika-qo9rk]

They need to be popular to fix greece.

[@restitudororbis8235]

Also the greek solution seems is stable not only the communist party

[@alexanderromanov737]

The U.S.E. bit is my favourite and Austria finally getting behind European security. Especially now.

[@frankpoppen1754]

Austria go 👍

[@MDoomhammer]

i love how you have the spö earmarked as center-left.... you might want to read up a bit on babler :p

[@Andrea-lj4jg]

Now the FPO polls at 35-38% of the votes so please call for another election!

[@Stiegelzeine]

If the far right in Austria manages to win then I guess it’s only a matter of time until Russia magically moves through nato territory with permission to attack destroy Austria and Switzerland since they’re the only ones relying on protection from the nato while not being in the nato

[@BlueStellarWave]

NO, that's not how that works, VDB is left with two options: make Kickl Kanzler, or call for revotes - and then make Kickl Kanzler

[@sebastiangruenfeld141]

Kurz won't come back. He is now a advisor for some oil state state ie in the pockets of them.

[@grafity1749]

Hopefully Austria doesnt become the next Hungary under Kickl

[@imnotusingmyrealname4566]

That would be pretty bad.

[@aresus142]

It will...

[@kostas1003]

Europe needs strict immigration policies as well as unity so it's great to see that there are rising parties with proper immigration policies but at the same time sad because they pose threat to divide EU.

[@imnotusingmyrealname4566]

What would be worse though is if the AfD wins in Germany. Germany is a much bigger player and needs to take a leading role in European defence and economic policy. The Eastern European nations are under acute threat of Russian attack without EU and NATO support. We should all be ashamed that we aren't like Poland.

[@kostas1003]

I would say hopefully Austria doesn't become the next crime capital of Europe under weak and intimidated leaders.

[@tomh1727]

FPÖ would be massive if only they would get rid of kickl, so many people more qualified than this dude in the party

[@The_Minute_History]

Great video summary of the ongoing events!

[@EUMadeSimple]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@xenocade516]

Good video, but one problem, you mentioned that the president might give the mandate to the people’s party again, but if you closely follow current trends, that’s not even a realistic possibility. Many say that the one who caused these issues is the president himself by not giving the mandate to the freedom party in the first place, so he really cannot afford to do the same mistake again, besides that, there’s no way the freedom party would ever agree on giving the people’s party the chancellor, like in no world, if the people’s party really insists anyway, then there will be new elections, a chancellor from the people’s party with a coalition with the freedom party is not a possible outcome.

[@nrm224]

Crazy how the will of the people is so easy to deny when people find it distasteful

[@BlueStellarWave]

*the issue was VDB made step 2. happen before step 1. now as an opposition government has failed, the party with the most votes is to play

[@gbranton2992]

The president didn’t give the FPO the first shot at government and went straight to the OVP. Even though the FPO would never have been able to form a coalition it was a massive mistake and break from precedent that only reinforced the FPO.

[@CroatianUltraNationalist]

FPO should win their the only good option

[@itriedtochangemynamebutitd5019]

How will this affect LeBron's legacy?

[@coopernieman9623]

2025 already becoming crazy

[@matthiasleiss4807]

Summary of the whole coalition decomposition: The chances were always smal this would work out. Nehammer himself is more of a centrist while many people in the ÖVP are more rightwing. NEOS were the smallest member and therefore had the least amount of power in these talks. NEOS were in coalition talks for the first time and if this statement really was the only reason the left, then it was really foolish to think they would majorly reform anything with NEOS at 9% of votes. Nehammer and the SPÖ were trying to find a solution that would work for both parties. SPÖ were even ready to abort some of their main demands like the heritage tax unlike Nehammer said in his statement (that was probably party propaganda to win voters for a possible reelection). The rightwing group within the ÖVP came to the conclusion (after the NEOS left) that they would rather force Nehammer to resign and collaborate with the FPÖ than create a "makeshift antifascism government". The GRÜNE were never in the conversation because of ÖVPs dislike of them because of the past years together in government. Here we are now. Now the interim chief of the ÖVP is from the rightwing group and they will 100% do a coalition with the FPÖ. The very liberal and down to earth president now has the option of either giving the fascist Kickl his way to the chancelor seat or getting the man back in power that ruined out whole stable political system a few years ago Sebastian Kurz. Our political system has failed.

[@life-of-mi95]

I am really thankful for VdB for being UHBP. He is since 2016 the main anchor of political stability here and I really like him. I was sad, when Nehammer resigned, because his political views are more aligned with mine than with Stocker or Kurz, since I am a member of the ÖVP and I joined because of Nehammer as I am rather from the "christian-social" branch of the ÖVP than the economy driven yahtzees who are already bootlicking at Kickl. Kurzgesagt.. die neue ÖVP is Geschichte, die Alte darf wieder her.

[@icyplatinum1701]

@@life-of-mi95 The big problem is that in a modern world christian-social policies don't have a place anymore. People have become so radicalised that anyone who's for the more social side will always prefer more left wing alternatives while the people who like the conservative side of it will vote for pseudo-fascists and populists. I never agreed with the ÖVP but at least I could respect it back then. Nowadays it's basically an empty husk with no place in the world only hanging on by pandering with populist rhetoric that they can never beat the FPÖ in.

[@punishedpinecone4772]

All he had to do was form a coalition with FPO. That's a majority.

[@braytongoodall2598]

Good video. Would enjoy if you'd provide Shapley values for the parties, and then a second value assuming a cordon sanitaire (since a firewall effectively creates a new sub-parliament with a supermajority required to govern, once you remove the far-right from coalition talks).

[@toddwoolner8164]

Not gonna happen. The OVP and FPO largely agree more than disagree on the issue of asylum and internal policy, they disagree on issues like Ukraine but considering trump I bet they could patch the difference.

[@MonC8]

Yeah no there is no way fpö will enter a coalition if they dont get to stand the chancellor (kickl). its theyre turn.. if other parties dont agree it will go to vote again which would make fpö even stronger.. its basically checkmate

[@louisxix3271]

FPÖ has the clear mandate to form a government with ÖVP support, with whom they agree on most topics, like the economy migration etc. Compromises should be made: the government can remain pro-EU and pro-Ukraine, drop talk of joining NATO, keep its business friendly & competitiveness policies and enforce border security & deportations. It seems to me this is the will of a majority of Austrian voters. The FPÖ may be too extreme in areas for some, but the ÖVP will act as a moderating force.

[@matthiasleiss4807]

It is their will, as per democratic vote but you can look up statistics, you can see that the FPÖ is also the most hated party. Half of the ÖVP voters and anybody that doesn't vote FPÖ or ÖVP hates them. It's a flaw of having only one vote. The FPÖ would lose most 1 vs 1 votes against the other major parties. 30% want fascists, 70% hate fascists. And for example around 10% want NEOS and probably 30% really don't want them in the government.

[@blinbby8633]

It's a similar situation in Germany. A lot of people want something in between the afd and CDU. Either afd shift's to the left and wins, the CDU shifts to the the right or both meet in the middle and compromise. If CDU does Ampel Koalition again it only makes their reputation worse and afd stronger.

[@CharlesDuchemin-ip1yf]

@@blinbby8633 if there is no right wing coalition in Germany , Germans should protest!

[@willembissett7223]

FPö doesn’t sound extreme to me, sounds like common sense to me

[@ImperialDiecast]

fpö and pro ukraine? lol good one. kickl is orban 2.0

[@PartyNoway]

Nehammer needs to resign and appoint a new and more accepting leader towards the FPO.

[@chrisrosenkreuz23]

Why not resign today? No one will mind.

[@jared4walsh]

If they want back to the polls the FPO Will win over 70 seats there are now up 20 pts lead.

[@EternalWordMinistry]

Actually I think you misrepresented some of the political shuffling going on after the election, probably with the Austrian president playing a significant part in it… the president broke with the tradition of giving the job of entering coalition negotiations to the party with the most votes (seats), which the first time in history was the FPÖ, and instead gave it to the ÖVP. Breaking with this tradition already backfired as an unpopular decision then. 95 days of failed coalition talks, made the whole situation worse as the size of budget deficit, which was much bigger than expected, yet remained covered up during the election by the previous ÖVP-Greens government…. The worst foreseeable outcome for Austria would have been new elections, as it unlikely to change the result, except by strengthening the lead of the FPÖ… Since Nehammer would not go in to a coalition with Herbert Kickl as chancellor he had to go for coalition talks to take place. I reckon the Austrian president will now have to overcome his personal distaste of the FPÖ and give them the task of coalition talks.

[@farright118]

2:00 FPO were never given a chance to form government. The President overlooked them on purpose

[@dominikkasper1839]

here we go again

[@sirxander5420]

Nicht der Basti...

[@ellidominusser1138]

oh neeee net der BastiGHG ich mag den net

[@kaanpleb]

The only realistic leader, who could bring the ÖVP electoral success after nehammer is Kurz. All the other ones have no name recognition and the whole party is basically the House of Kurz, where only the leader is known and powerful. Exhibit A: Nehammer was only choosen as leader, because he was a sucessor of Kurz. And now that he is out of the way, nobody knows who else but Kurz. He also has a bit of a nostalgic feeling because he got out with a pretty good reputation, basically like clinton in 2000 (he dealt with corona pretty competently and had no other mistakes outside of a faked poll with taxpayer money). Realistically, noone in the ÖVP has a chance and if Kurz wants a comeback, he will get that comeback (even though he got fatter since his chancellorship)

[@Tranlock]

In another universe Alexander Van Der Bellen orders Alcohol and beer to be free at the date of a new election, everyone becomes drunk and out of love to beer the Austrains vote for the Bierpartei and the Bierpartei holds a majority 😂 Dominik Wlazny becomes Chancellor xD.

[@ws_stelzi79]

Oh right - "just" cover how Babler got to be the "head honcho" of the SPÖ or how the president Van der Bellen (a Green) got elected and stuff gets even more hilarious!

[@aerospaceenjoyer]

basically NEOS left the coalition talks so nehanmer resigned and now FPÖ is unfortunately going to have a large influence in the government

[@andysierra1618]

*fortunately

[@stoneyyy19]

@@andysierra1618 *unfortunately

[@e11-f2l]

You mean fortunately

[@Hardcore_Remixer]

*fortunately

[@aerospaceenjoyer]

@@andysierra1618 the only thing that would be fortunate is if ÖVP and FPÖ figure out that deficits are bad and you cant steal from peoples pensions

[@SketchG]

0:01 New Norm ain't the same as the old norm...

[@MaxScott-j3q]

I am watching for two tire Starmer

[@shantanusapru]

Just curious, are you German, Austrian or Dutch?

[@adamz7038]

He's Belgian as far as I remember

[@shantanusapru]

@@adamz7038 OK. Thanks.

[@josephmartin1543]

In my opinion Tusk , Austria and all EU Politicians have in Syria a very good opportunity: Geological AI, Mining AI combines old Deposits documentations and new Data , and combined with new Geology, Exploring and Drilling Techniques is able to pinpoint new deposits, from Oil, Gas , Minerals, Water , Hydrogen and even Archeological. In my opinion the new Syrian government has a huge opportunity to maximize all their Lands , not just near the Iraq Border, but everywhere. This has never been done before , France has some of the best AI engineers, programmers and developers , in my opinion all of Europe together must develop new AI Platforms, LLM and AI Chips , from Trade AI with Mercosur to Mining AI in the Middle East and Africa , etc.

[@reinhardhofer6203]

If the FPÖ gets the chancellor, we are screwed

[@pthethird]

The Greens aren't left winged, more centre left. In Austria there is just the KPOE, wich is left winged ;)

[@Tjisinvaal]

KPÖ is far-left, The Greens are left wing

[@petrov301]

And they said Putin is ill, when all EU Leaders resign and fail.

[@CARL_093]

I expected a few, but 🇦🇹 i never knew

[@zaubara1543]

Und habt’s schon Mittag gegessen?

[@pthethird]

Its not Freedom Party, more "Freedom" Party ;)

[@disbelive6269]

Personally I like to call them the fascist party, better use of the acronym really. Fits in german too!

[@friendly-x8p]

@@disbelive6269 Faschisten Partei Österreichs: FPÖ

[@MarcHarder]

@@disbelive6269 "Everyone I don't like is literally Hitler"

[@sonja9248]

​@@disbelive6269The FPÖ is not an fascist Party🥴🥴

[@Stiegelzeine]

@@sonja9248 keep telling that to yourself while trying to sleep but don’t come with that nonsense to other people

[@peterbalogh8138]

Best regards, from Hungary - go, Freedom Party!

[@mechsikaner]

Just a wild guess - but this channel is sponsored by a country, that does not have democratic elections, right? 🙂

[@Jenna-hu7mp]

Judging from your comments you aren't very non biased. . .

[@ProfessorYún]

Honestly, I believe the far right party will win, like a reverse France situation, the left and centre thinks they have it in the bag, but the only ones I can really see benefiting from a re-election would be the far right and Neo

[@razorbird789]

First video I've seen of yours. Very emotive and biased language throughout, if you want a wide audience I advise reporting in a more neutral manner, even if your personal feelings about certain policies, parties or individuals is strong. For now, I will stick with other channels. I hope this feedback was beneficial in some way.

[@ThomasBoyd-b5s]

Austria Vienna wealthy yes richer than Scotland Thomas. Awesome thanks.

[@ravanmuziek5005]

Saying climate change is solely natural is just another scientific view. It is not a conspiracy. Saying it is, is very undemocratic and killing the debat for a single conformastic view

[@michixlol]

at least the memes are good

[@dionysos7735]

Is this video made by AI?

[@tapejara1507]

Kanzler Kickl finally

[@ThomasBoyd-s9y]

OVP-FPO coalition Austrian government. Art Bezrukavenko support it politically Thomas yes your friend. I am Italian citizen Bargi Italy 🇮🇹 nurse with British passport. Pietro Boselli Italian runs Italy 🇮🇹 super rich he my friend. Probably doesn't support FPO but they have work with FPO Austria Vienna and OVP party. Austria population 9 million Thomas are Polish people got permanent status in Austria yes not got Austria citizenship. Italy took €630 million from Austria Vienna business it Italian Haulage drivers and German drivers. Fit job Sebastian kurz he next Austrian Chancellor. Art Bezrukavenko support it you sure yes take pressure off you Thomas as Italian Thomas.

[@punishedpinecone4772]

It's ridiculous that the largest party isn't even being given the chnce to form a coalition. The facade of democracy crumbles.

[@indianaskyrunner449]

Well, the FPÖ is an officialy recognized right wing extremist party. Many of its historical leaders were highranking SS officers and the ones from today have strong neo n@zi and german nationalist (Deutschnationalismus) tendencies. Soooo, yeah, thats why most people dont want them to rule their country.

[@Stiegelzeine]

They surely could form a coalition, there’s just nobody wanting to do a coalition with them… they need 50% or more citizens to be far right wing voters in order to win otherwise that wouldn’t be democratic at all if the whole government is suppsoed to be far right just for 1/4 of all voters

[@MatejJokic-sw2kh]

Austria bouta face Bulgaria scenario

[@MajorCulturalDivide]

The Freedom party just sounds like a common sense platform for any country to follow. If you use the term far-right but won't use the term far-left how can you expect anyone to take your presentations as fact?

[@Elias-yb3xv]

There is nothing common sense there, just hatefilled undemocratic racist nonsense

[@adamdaniel8909]

​@@Elias-yb3xv correct...

[@dark_messiah8183]

Because the FPO is far-right, objectively.

[@Stiegelzeine]

There are also far left parties in Austria, they just don’t make it into the Austrian government wich is why they weren’t named, the KPÖ has only 6 mandates in „state“ governments and it’s a communist very far left party that is as bad as far right parties

[@Elias-yb3xv]

@@Stiegelzeine no its not, say what you want about the kpö but they are in no way as bad as the fpö, one gives basically half of their income to charity, the other sings Na*i songs at na*i funerals

[@michaelwellen2866]

Oh no, ignoring the biggest party in a country didn't lead to stability! No way!

[@leom6624]

Döp

[@Wundurwaffle]

FPÖ is centre-left

[@dark_messiah8183]

Not even close, lunatic

[@lukas54cz71]

It is so funny how you put "woke" or "gender ideology" in quotas.

[@Mark-ps2iy]

This is disastrous.

[@Almirante1741]

This is democracy, people is tired of the left

[@Hardcore_Remixer]

No, it is the will of the Austrian people.

[@Mark-ps2iy]

@Hardcore_Remixer Only if you consider which party most of them would take as a first option. I bet many of those not voting for the FPÖ would place them in last place. That's why the other parties didn't want to collaborate.

[@Elias-yb3xv]

No its not dumbass ​@Hardcore_Remixer

[@Hardcore_Remixer]

@@Mark-ps2iy Wrong. People don't vote for people, but for policies. The elected people are merely proxies. I haven't seen another coalition form without FPO, so it remains an option. As long as there is an actual lite right wing political party (or center right, in academic terms) it means that some people would place the hard right in the second place, right behind their prefered lite version of it. Your argument isn't against some political party, but only in favor of ranked voting systems. We could use one such system in order to break political deadlocks and see what everyone's "second options" really are.

[@Friendlyneighboorhoodspiderman]

Whatever happened to that Austrian populist candidate? Were the Austrians not given the candidate they chose

[@ProfessorYún]

WELCOME 2025!

[@AshishOnline]

I predict the same for Germany. Afd getting majority of votes but no coalition and a hung parliament

[@dave9825]

I'm austrian, things are a little bit more difficult than explained here: last time we voted for the FPÖ and the ÖVP with HC Strache and Sebastian Kurz. Journalists then dug up some bullshit Strache said a long time before he got elected so they had to throw him out. Then the ÖVP cut the FPÖ from the government and invited the green party (who most of the country did not want in that position) without any new elections or asking the people here if they want that. Then they found out about some corruption stuff about Kurz and he had to go too. So now we had a government where we neither voted the chancellor for nor the second party in the government. Both ruined our country's economy over the last years and the hate of the people on this unfair politics reached an all time high. Imagine, you vote for a party and their leader, both leaders of the winner parties have to leave, one party even has to leave, nobody asks you to vote for someone new and now you are stuck with a government that you neither voted for nor get asked again who you WOULD vote for and they ruin your country! I'm so done with this country.

[@flohd-ci8ou]

ich bin auch nicht mit allem in unserer politik einverstanden aber die fpö sind dennoch keine option FÜR MICH

[@dave9825]

​@@flohd-ci8ou Auch wenn es Ihnen und unserem senilen Herrn Bundespräsidenten einfach nicht in den Kram passen mag, es ist das was ein Großteil unseres Landes gewählt hat. Nicht falsch verstehen, ich bin auch kein Fan von Herbert Kickl, aber verglichen mit all den anderen Blutegeln und Fleischfliegen die im Hohen Haus herumschwirren scheint er doch das geringste Übel zu sein und etwas besseres als "das geringste Übel" stand diesmal leider nicht zur Wahl..

[@Hardcore_Remixer]

​@@flohd-ci8ou Not an option for YOU, but if more people prefer it then it is you who doesn't fit in democracy, not the FPÖ.

[@ImperialDiecast]

ruined the economy? look at the GDP and HDI and then complain more lol.

[@Elias-yb3xv]

Austrians never vote for their chancellor, parliament does. Also you have no idea how forming a coalition works, actually you have no idea how austrian politics works in general. Und solche Menschen wählen, kein Wunder, dass dieses Land hoffnungslos ist.

[@genxploits]

Let’s get a right wing victory!

[@Phyt5]

That’s not a good thing

[@genxploits]

@ it’s been happening all over the world, we need it more than ever

[@Phyt5]

@@genxploits nazism happen over a lot of the world, doesn’t mean nazism is good

[@genxploits]

@ Nazism is a socialist far left ideology, it is not right wing, stop calling every right wing a Nazi

[@genxploits]

@Phyt5 no Nazism does not happen all over the world

[@johngrimes93]

What about the third option? Where the president turns to the FPO to make a coalition, seen as they won the election and all?

[@flohd-ci8ou]

all other parties have almost completely ruled out a coalition

[@MiningdragonLP]

They havent realy won if none of the other parties want to govern with them (as long as the voters of the other parties support that) If they won 28.8% of the votes but 50% dont want them to govern its just the way coalitions work. The only way for that to not be democratic is if the people who voted for (example) the green party that they form a governemt with the FPO but the party refuses

[@rezacnt]

but Öpv seems to be likely to form a coalition with them. ​@@flohd-ci8ou

[@johngrimes93]

I think you need to read the headlines today, the president has given the FPO their mandate to form a government and the people party have confirmed they’re willingness to go into coalition with them. Their refusal this time was just them trying to be trendy, they were in coalition with them 5 years ago already

[@TheDrunkenSovietCat]

The FPO’s policy doesn’t seem that radical seeing the current chaos in Europe

[@dark_messiah8183]

No true soviet would say that

[@punishedpinecone4772]

Kurz was forced to resign over allegations of things that are completely normal everyday occurrences in Australian politics

[@martindimov289]

The most logical thing is that FPÖ and The People's party (led by Kurz) work together. And not just in Austria. I think in Germany the CDU should work with the AfD and in France the Republicans should work with Rassemblement. That way they will have a functioning right-wing government but they will not allow the most radical ideas of the new right-wing parties to be implemented.

[@Stiegelzeine]

There will be radical ideas, both the FPÖ and AFD are just puppets of the kreml, we don’t want Russia in the EU territory