The FPÖ presented its first posters for the Hofburg election campaign on Thursday. “Uncompromising for Austria” is the slogan. In addition to their own projects, candidate Walter Rosenkranz and party leader Herbert Kickl mainly spoke about the incumbent Alexander Van der Bellen and positioned themselves as a counterweight to “four parties and their president”, as Kickl repeatedly emphasized. The ÖVP, SPÖ, Greens and NEOS are meant, who this time all have to do without their own candidates. The competitors on the right-wing voter spectrum, on the other hand, were not mentioned at all.
“We will all do our very best in the coming weeks to ensure that Van der Bellen’s escape strategy from Walter Rosenkranz does not come through,” Kickl muttered. The Federal President is a “favorite of the self-proclaimed elites at the national and international level”, with the four parties mentioned he is a “traffic light of unreasonableness”. It is felt that one has the right to “abolish fundamental rights and freedoms, divide people into good and evil, and set them against each other”.
“Uncompromising” vs “Bad Compromises”
Rosencrantz sounded the same, responding to the keyword “uncompromising” in the first poster campaign: in politics, compromises are the order of the day, even when the FPÖ was in government. However, caution is advised against “lazy compromises”: “One side is regularly ripped off and may not have noticed at all.”
‘Van der Bellen approved everything’
Rosencrantz mentioned issues of freedom, security, sovereignty or neutrality on which he wanted to be uncompromising. “Van der Bellen has hidden all the government’s rotten compromises”, such as the “attacks on the constitution” related to Corona. “I am uncompromising on constitutional issues and when it comes to securing prosperity and social peace.”
No intermediate status for statements of support: “All worth the same”
When asked about the current status of the statements of support, the liberal duo waved them off. These “still come to us”, they want to wait “until all declarations are in the house”. “Everyone is worth the same to me,” Rosencrantz says.
The ballot paper keeps getting longer
In the past 24 hours, three competitors had announced that they had collected the necessary 6,000 signatures: attorney Tassilo Wallentin, blogger Gerald Grosz and MFG chief Michael Brunner. Musician and doctor Dominik Wlazny (Marco Pogo) had already done this last week. They are all on the ballot paper for the presidential election on October 9.
Source: Krone
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