Since the 2019 National Council elections, Herbert Kickl, Sebastian Kurz, Alexander Schallenberg and Pamela Rendi-Wagner have been leading in the polls: Karl Nehammer could win on election Sunday without ever being in first place in the polls himself have stood.
No matter how quiet the election campaign was, election night promises to be exciting. Pollsters expect a neck-and-neck race between FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl, who is currently leading in the polls, and Chancellor Karl Nehammer. The ÖVP owes a brilliant comeback to the fact that it could be so close tonight that there may not be a winner yet – and that is not exactly in sight yet.
Pandemic caused black and green highlights
Looking at the surveys since the 2019 National Council elections, there have been several ups and downs over the past five years.
In the first year of the corona pandemic, the ÖVP under the now young former chancellor Sebastian Kurz even achieved 46 percent, the Greens even up to 18 percent. “The FPÖ initially suffered heavily from the corona pandemic, dropping to around twelve percent, but was then able to benefit from the lockdowns and growing discontent among the population,” explains Christoph Haselmayer, head of the Institute for Demoscopy and Data Analysis ( IFDD) out. ).
ÖVP and SPÖ lost pole position
Accusations of corruption, chat scandals and the associated withdrawal of the turquoise wonderwuzzi Sebastian Kurz would then have slowed down the ÖVP and led to the SPÖ under Pamela Rendi-Wagner even exceeding 30 percent in a possible election in the summer of 2022 . That would have been the case, because as we know there have been no new elections and the unity in the red ranks has continued to crumble despite the good polls.
As is known, internal quarrels and crossfire from various states led to a leadership discussion within the SPÖ – and a few months later the top spot was gone again. “In the autumn of 2022, there was finally a change in the approval of the Corona measures, from which Herbert Kickl and his FPÖ increasingly benefited politically. Since December 2022, he has been a leader in all studies without exception,” Haselmayer added.
Source: Krone
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