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Die Erben von Jörg Haider gestürzt
TAGES ANZEIGER: Im österrreichischen Bundesland Kärnten hatte die FPK bis jetzt eine solide Mehrheit. Nun wurde die Partei des verstorbenen Rechtspopulisten Jörg Haider regelrecht abgestraft. Schuld soll die Korruption sein.

Überraschung im ehemaligen Jörg-Haider-Land Kärnten: Nach Korruptionsskandalen strafen die Wähler die regierende FPK auf bisher in Österreich beispiellose Weise ab.

Die Erben des Rechtspopulisten Jörg Haider stürzten bei den Landtagswahlen am Sonntag dem vorläufigen Endergebnis zufolge auf 17,1 Prozent ab. Bei den letzten Landtagswahlen 2009 hatten sie noch gut 45 Prozent erreicht.

Zahlreiche Korruptionsskandale aus der Ära des 2008 tödlich verunglückten Haider hatten in Kärnten die Koalition aus FPK und konservativer ÖVP brechen lassen. Klarer Wahlsieger ist die sozialdemokratische SPÖ. » | mrs/sda | Sonntag, 03. März 2013

Strache Claims to Be Haider's Heir in the Third Camp
WIENER ZEITUNG: FPÖ leader Heinz-Christian Strache has said that he sees himself as the only heir of former BZÖ leader and Carinthian Governor Jörg Haider in the so-called "Dritte Lager" or right-wing Third Camp of Austrian politics.



The "Dritte Lager" includes right-wing, nationalist and economically-liberal voters in Austria and is the country’s third big camp after Social Democrat (SPÖ) and People's Party (ÖVP) members and sympathisers, respectively.



Strache said that the BZÖ had represented only Haider himself after he split from the FPÖ and formed the BZÖ in 2005.



Strache added that he was inviting "all reasonable forces", voters and politicians to support the "solid path of the FPÖ".



Strache expressed appreciation for the work of his former mentor Haider, with whom he fell out before the BZÖ was founded.

Strache said that Haider had created a new style of politics and made the FPÖ into a strong party.



Strache claimed that he was very pleased that he had had an opportunity to discuss issues with Haider in a meeting last week. Strache, however, ruled out reunification of Austria’s right-wing parties. [Source: Wiener Zeitung] | 14. October 2008

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Will the Far Right Doom Austria's Mainstream Parties?
SPIEGELONLINE INTERNATIONAL: Despite their worst defeat in postwar history, Austria's Social Democrats and conservatives are preparing to enter into a second coalition government. But gains made by the country's far right, suggest the future could be dim for Austria's two mainstream parties.

No one pays much mind to the short, elegant man standing at a taxi stand in front of Vienna's Hofburg Imperial Palace, once home to the Habsburg dynasty. With his salt-and-pepper hair, alert eyes and bushy eyebrows, he spends a full 20 minutes standing among the people without being recognized. He's on his mobile telephone trying to build a new government for Austria.

Werner Faymann wants to be the country's next chancellor. Faymann, touted as "the new choice" on campaign posters, also happens to be the man the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) can thank for capturing only 29 percent of votes in that country's parliamentary election -- the worst outcome for the party since the end of World War II. The potential chancellor, as the behind-the-scenes coordinator of his party's failed coalition with the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), as transportation minister and, since June, as head of the SPÖ, bears a large share of the responsibility for the disaster.

But now it's time for Faymann to put things right. Facing a tight schedule, he barely has enough time to sit down for a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice at Café Griensteidl. "The council of ministers, committee meetings, the party leadership," says Faymann, noting that they all want something from him now, and yet he doesn't try to create the impression that his hectic schedule is something he regrets. We need a reasonable government, quickly, he says, pointing out that the old "coalition of disagreement has been voted out of office."

Formally, at any rate. Only an hour earlier, these lame-duck politicians were sworn in a second time, at a ceremony with all the pomp and circumstance of the Habsburg court, and Werner Faymann was in the thick of it. The entire group had to appear once more in the Maria Theresia Room of the Hofburg Palace, under crystal chandeliers, gilded stucco and tapestries: the ministers from the two major parties, the SPÖ and the ÖVP, who, for a little less than 18 months -- a shorter tenure than that of any other cabinet in Austria's Second Republic -- were part of a coalition government racked by vicious feuds.

Now they are taking a new oath of office, pledging to do the best possible job until a new government has been formed. Judging by their high spirits, one would think they were teenagers on a class trip. Hapless outgoing Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer watches the spectacle with a stony expression on his face. Instead of Gusenbauer, his fellow party member Faymann steps into the spotlight at the end to praise the electorate: "The public has a strong sense for when a politician is acting in a constructive way." Will the Far Right Doom Austria's Mainstream Parties? (Part 1)>>> By Walter Mayr in Vienna | October 8, 2008

'I'll Pop Open a Bottle of Champagne the Day There Is No Longer an Israeli Ambassador in Vienna' (Part 2) >>> By Walter Mayr in Vienna | October 8, 2008

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Strache trifft Pröll und ortet "Bereitschaft des Miteinander"
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DIE PRESSE: ÖVP-Chef Pröll hat bei FPÖ-Obmann Strache einen "Antrittsbesuch" absolviert. Über eine mögliche Koalition soll nicht gesprochen worden sein. Strache sieht jedoch ein Abgehen von der "Ausgrenzung" seiner Partei.

ÖVP-Obmann Josef Pröll hat sich am Montag mit FPÖ-Chef Heinz-Christian Strache getroffen. Eine mögliche Regierungszusammenarbeit sei dabei jedoch kein Thema gewesen, betonten danach beide Seiten: "Es gab weder Vereinbarungen noch Zusagen, auch nicht über weitere Termine".

Über den Inhalt des 45-minütigen Gesprächs sei "ansonsten Stillschweigen vereinbart" worden, hieß es aus ÖVP-Seite. Immerhin: Man habe sich "mit der Analyse der nach dm Wahlergebnis eingetretenen Situation befasst" und habe "weiters festgestellt, dass die Regierungsbildung unter diesen Voraussetzungen nicht einfach wird". Es sei ein "interessantes Gespräch" gewesen.

Strache erklärte, er habe den Eindruck, dass die ÖVP von ihrer "Ausgrenzung" der FPÖ abgehe und eine "atmosphärische Normalität" einkehre. Der FP-Chef ortet ein "neues Politkapitel" und eine "Bereitschaft des Miteinander". Der "Antrittsbesuch" Prölls als neuer ÖVP-Obmann sei "politische Normalität". Strache trifft Pröll und ortet "Bereitschaft des Miteinander" >>> | 6. Oktober 2008

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Die neue Hoffnung der Konservativen in Österreich: Josef Pröll, der neue Obmann der ÖVP, kommt zwar vom Bauernbund, gilt aber als liberal - Und er ist ein Verfechter der großen Koalition >>> Von Reinhard Engel | 1. Oktober 2008

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