The Oktoberfest tent is bursting at the seams. It’s only ten o’clock in the morning – and more than 3,000 fans in blue are already there, being served grilled chicken and schnitzel with fries. They came from all over the region: from Burgenland, from the Murtal, from Deutschlandsberg, from Graz – after all, it is the first major party after the FPÖ election victory a week ago and the start of the campaign for the Styrian elections.
You almost feel like you are at a football match. Blue is the dominant color. Women with blue colored dreadlocks. Blue dirndls, men wearing Mario Kunasek body warmers, blue decorated gingerbread hearts around their necks. The John Otti Band gets the audience in the mood with the blue chant “We are a family” for FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl.
Kickl visit lasted 40 minutes then back to Vienna
The election winner comes – as promised – but only for about 40 minutes. Because now he has to plan the tactics for the coming weeks. When Kickl moves in, the FPÖ fans are sitting on the benches and the FPÖ leader is presented with a bouquet of flowers by a female fan. A little later he will say on stage: “The positive blue wave of freedom rolls and rolls and rolls.” Kickl repeatedly emphasizes that he is not generating the election victory for himself or for the FPÖ, but for ‘you’: ‘It is a day of celebration for your steadfastness. I congratulate you on your election success.”
And Kickl feels, he tells the fans, that in Vienna “the walls are shaking” at the ÖVP and the SPÖ when they see the “power that lies dormant within us” during the broadcast from Hartberg.
Kunasek should create the next blue wonder
The second victory after the National Council elections are the state elections in Vorarlberg and Styria will be taken over in mid-November. Mario Kunsaek would create the next “Blue Wonder.”
“You still have to surf for a few more weeks, dear Mario, against the cold wind. Then you will achieve in Styria what Jörg Haider achieved in Carinthia,” he says as an election goal in the direction of Styria’s top candidate Kunasek, who is in the audience. Norbert Hofer, who is running against Hans Peter Doskozil in Burgenland (Kickl: “Next year he will become state governor.”), also came. Also ex-Hofburg candidate Walter Rosenkranz and MP Hannes Amesbauer.
Kickl wants to ‘immediately reorder Brunner from Brussels’
Then Kickl tells the blue fanbase that he has to change now. “But I have experienced more unpleasant changes.” The difference with the past: now he has the backpack with him – and that is the ‘will of the voters’. “The blue wonder must become a red-white-red wonder,” is Kickl’s dream. He promises the crowd, which continues to cheer Kickl on, “five good years.” For employees and entrepreneurs. And if you don’t follow this example, you have no business in this country. Moreover, the ‘pension application should again be worth more than an asylum application’.
But first he will clean up the pieces as Chancellor. Then ‘build a positive future step by step’. Because the old government ‘covered the illegal migration of peoples’. Those being deported are actually “Bulgarians and Romanians and not Syrians and Afghans.”
There is also a “major danger to prosperity and performance”. Because the old government had “piled debt upon debt.” Only now is the cat coming out of the bag when it comes to the budget. Responsible for this is the current Minister of Finance Magnus Brunner, who will now become Commissioner for Migration in Brussels. “How should he solve the asylum crisis? He must be recalled immediately and a Freedom Party must be sent to Brussels.”
“Backroom Deals” and “Slap in the Face”
These are all things that are currently keeping Kickl busy. To prevent him from becoming chancellor, “they are already running around in the back room.” The motto of the losers is ‘maintain power at all costs’. To achieve this, we are now working on a black-red coalition with a pink support wheel. But: “We will thwart this plan,” Kickl promises. “I intend to negotiate fairly. No traps, no backroom deals, no dirty tricks. Our hand is outstretched.”
During his audience in the Hofburg, he clearly said to Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen: “I want to become Chancellor. A blue vote may not be worth less than any other vote. And there is only one election winner and not four.”
He also made it clear to the Federal President that it would be “brutal for those who led the country into the abyss and now want to restore it.” A coalition of losers would therefore be a “slap in the face” for FPÖ voters. Now it is the turn of the Federal President.
After 40 minutes, Kickl immediately left the tent.
Source: Krone
I am Ida Scott, a journalist and content author with a passion for uncovering the truth. I have been writing professionally for Today Times Live since 2020 and specialize in political news. My career began when I was just 17; I had already developed a knack for research and an eye for detail which made me stand out from my peers.
