According to Chancellor Sayer – election campaign motto: Right versus right-wing extremist

Right-wing, right-wing extremist, right-wing radical – terms are thrown around wildly in the domestic political debate.

Nehammer wants a duel
Chancellor and ÖVP leader Karl Nehammer wants to set up a duel between himself and FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl in the upcoming election campaign and is accordingly targeting the blue frontman. Kickl is “a right-wing extremist in his statements,” Nehammer said in the ORF press hour on Sunday.

Herbert Kickl wears extreme medals
Kickl himself takes this ‘insult’ and turns it into something positive: “If, as a ‘right-wing extremist’, I am insulted by political will-o’-the-wisps like Nehammer or Kogler, then I wear this insult like a medal,” he said for two weeks. the New Year’s kick-off of the FPÖ in Graz.

Liberal general secretary Christian Hafenecker testifies that Nehammer is afraid of a “people’s chancellor” Herbert Kickl. The ÖVP boss is a “regular member of the ÖVP’s ‘I’m so afraid of Herbert Kickl self-help group’”. The population, on the other hand, is not afraid of Kickl, says Hafenecker.

Who rises and who falls?
The German political scientist Thomas Biebricher has studied the terms right and extreme right and written a book about the role of center-right parties in democracy. According to him, “channels of communication” exist between these two camps.

“While the radical right is rising, the moderate right is declining. But then there is also the phenomenon of the moderate right radicalizing itself. This is how you maintain dominance, but the price is self-radicalization. The Tories in Britain are the best example of this,” he said in the “Presse”.