In 2024 we will elect the National Council. With a voting right where the name of a party can be ticked in the voting booth or by postal vote. There is no doubt that parties have great merit in Austrian democracy. For example, the reconstruction after the Second World War. But the current party image is underground.
1. Dear readers, Hand on heart: Do you agree with the statement that parties only want our check marks on the ballot, but are not interested in the concerns of the population? This is a strong statement and is being asked as a question in the context of the ORF’s election research. Already in the 2019 National Council elections – at the time with the ÖVP under Sebastian Kurz at a peak and the Freedom Party at a low point after the Ibiza video and the expenditure scandal – almost 60 percent agreed with the quoted statement.
Source: Krone
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