Austria’s SHOCKING Election Results Explained

Austria's election results shocked the nation as the far-right FPÖ won! But with no clear majority, the question remains: Who will rule Austria? Coalitions are inevitable, and the negotiations are going to be intense. Stay tuned as we break it all down!

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[Wislehorn]

I don't think I'd describe far-right victories as "shocking" at this point.

[MaryOtu-sx]

It was the Swifties. When that show was cancelled due to threats that was the last straw

[Siranoxz]

Perhaps the EU needs to guess itself why far right parties are surging instead of ignoring them altogether..

I guess Orban has another ally which he needs so badly.

[MaxMustermann-yjwz]

"stunnig turn of Events"
Whole Europe already voted far right. 🤦‍♂️

[Nightey]

From Austria: the problem isn't the "stark ideological differences" between ÖVP and SPÖ for a coalition, it's just that their seats are too tight, only 1-2 representatives over the 50% mark threshold. If one is on the toilet during a poll in the parliament and two are sick they don't have the majority anymore. That's the reason a third party is the "safer" option. And hearing from insiders that the three parties of ÖVP, SPÖ and NEOS already had secret meetings for months now discussing various ministry posts I think it wouldn't be too long to hear about a new government. The only issue are two state elections in a month so up until then we won't hear anything definitive to not weaken their respective parties in the states probably.
As an Austrian I give the ÖVP, SPÖ and NEOS option a hard 85% probability (also because red and pink are rather uniform in their foreign and educational policies). ÖVP will get the chancellor, SPÖ the vice and NEOS education and foreign ministry as a goodwill gesture.

[capslocked]

reposting my comment from the earlier video:

i partly blame the left in austria for even letting it get this bad.

Public Kindergartens and schools in Vienna are 70% full of kids who dont speak german,
i live in a district where its even rare to hear people under the age of 30 speak german.
and if you say anything about it you get labeled as a fascist or nazi.
Some districts such as the 10th have become dangerous to go out at night, especially if youre a woman.

+ turkish and arab diaspora have formed parallel societes and are doing actively the opposite of integrating.

I hate the FPÖ for kneeling under putins table but this has been a long time coming.

[Aggoenix]

Why every anti-migration party is usually pro-russian and hard eurosceptic? I do understand parties that are anti-migration, i mean we all see that integrating masses of people is problematic and causes a lot of problems, but why absolute majority of these parties is very soft or friendly towards authoritarian Russia and proposes EU exit. Parties that criticize migration, but on the other side are pro EU cooperation and are against Russia are relatively rare. I can think of Meloni in Italy for example. I personally would for example welcome a party that is 1) Economically center or center-right 2) Socially moderately liberal 3) Pro-EU, but sometimes critical 4) Anti-migration 5) Hard on Russia and active in the world stage 6) Limiting Green Deal 7) Fighting bureaucracy a LOT and maximum investments into Competitiveness, digitalization and new tech, bringing it back from USA and China into Europe.

[bunjijumper]

People are just tired and afraid of all the Islamists.

[theglanconer]

Lots of ' shocking' results these past years in Europe.

[apolloniapythia]

With the vote in 1999 which brought the goverment of Schüssel-Haider I the FPÖ + ÖVP had about 54% and now with a big right wing uprising in Europe the two have 56%. So not realy such a big win. The FPÖ had lost nearly 10% in the vote of 2019 because of the latest scandal of this party. Most went to the ÖVP which now lost them back. In the last two decade these two parties have about 10% of the voters switch between them. The big base of the FPÖ - beside the nationalists who founded it - are the workers who have permanently left the Austrian socialists. Without the leftist leadership the SPÖ has at the moment there might be the KPÖ in the parliament back since 1959.
While the Greens lost because of the coalition with the ÖVP the NEOS gained a little - not bad for a liberal party in a deep anti-liberal (as political party-leaning) country which had its last liberal government in th 19th century and lost their last stronghold 1895 with Vienna which went to the deeply anti-semitic (as politic to gain the votes of catholics) Christlichsozialen.

[EnthusiastCarHangar]

While it’s alright to dislike the FPÖ it’s not ok do ignore a democratic party that won the elections.
People are unhappy and they expressed it.

[mantizshrimp]

shockingly a lot of countries voted right wing parties in the last years.. I wonder why

[andrea.grimes]

Austrians have chosen their own country and not the EU.

[and]

Explained? We know. If you haven't figured it out yet then you're insane.

[DerZocker]

as an austrian

it wasn't surprising at all to see the fpö at 29%

tbh i was surprised it didn't crack the 30% mark

nearly all of my work colleagues in a factory vote fpö or wouldn't give me an answer, so yeah

[Knightedddd]

The far right is only far right from the perspective of the far left. Just because we don’t want Austria to become Baghdad they, the far left created the far right slogan. Well the people have spoken.

[reinholdbeck]

Austrian here!

Maybe, but it's just a wild guess, the reason for election results is that Austria has the second-highest per-capita-number of asylum seekers in the EU, mostly from Syria, Afghanistan, Morocco and Pakistan, and those bring a LOT of problems with them.

But maybe a third of Austrians are just natsis, who knows ....

[lordwurm]

The names are pronounced really good, is the narrator german speaking in some kind? Maybe "Kogler" was a bit clumsy but the rest was nearly native.

[igorbalanovski]

Your videos are very informative! thanks!

[aftertwentea]

Not shocking at all, if we are talking about Austria.