Vienna – the conservative Freedom Party (Freiheitlichen Partei \u00d6sterreichs – FP\u00d6) is now the strongest political party in Austria, according to the latest polls. If an election had to be held in the country today, 28 percent of Austrians would vote for the FP\u00d6, showing an increase from March this year. The Freedom Party is extending its lead over the leftist Social Democratic Party of Austria (SP\u00d6) that is currently showing 23 percent support.<\/p>\n
The recent poll published by the magazine News<\/em> prompted analysts to predict further gains ahead for the Freedom Party.<\/p>\n Christina Matzka of meinungsraum.at commented on the poll: “This is not a passing fad. The Freedom Party seems to be establishing itself in first place and rising without stopping. The cause is the unhappiness with government and government inaction. A quick agreement on tax reform gave them some buyoncy, for example. So they have not assuaged the dissatisfaction of the people.”<\/p>\n The Freedom Party has cemented itself around the 20 percent mark and 19 percent of the 800 people polled (margin of error +\/- 3,5 percent) said they would vote for the party. The Greens are at 14 percent (plus 2), while the Neos are weakening, declining with four percentage points to 10 percent. The Stronach Team, currently at 2 percent, seems without any hope.<\/p>\n Also in a direct vote for the Chancellorship has the weakness of the top policitians become evident: the leader of the Freedom Party, Heinz-Christian Strache, has overtaken the current chancellor and chairman of the Social Democrats, Werner Faymann, with 15 percent against 14 percent. Only nine percent of voters support the vice-chancellor and leader of the Austrian People’s Party, Michael Spindelegger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vienna – the conservative Freedom Party (Freiheitlichen Partei \u00d6sterreichs – FP\u00d6) is now the strongest political party in Austria, according to the latest polls. If an election had to be held in the country today, 28 percent of Austrians would vote for the FP\u00d6, showing an increase from March this year. The Freedom Party is … Continue reading “Austrian Freedom Party tops the polls with 28%”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[9338,9339,9340],"class_list":["post-14495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-austrian-freedom-party","tag-freiheitlichen-partei-osterreichs-fpo","tag-heinz-christian-strache"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14496,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14495\/revisions\/14496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}