WCSOn July 22 2019 19:15 TheDwf wrote:
@BigJ or any Austrian people: any update on the Ibiza scandal and its consequences?
@BigJ or any Austrian people: any update on the Ibiza scandal and its consequences?
Not many new things to tell you. There are going to be elections on the 29th September which Sebatian Kurz and his conservative ÖVP party are going to win in a landslide. According to current polling the possible (non-exotic) coalitions for a government will be:
ÖVP-FPÖ
ÖVP-SPÖ
ÖVP-Greens-Neos
Almost possible:
ÖVP-Greens
ÖVP - conservatives
SPÖ - social-democrats
FPÖ - far-right
Greens - Greens
Neos - Neoliberal, liberal-conservatives
Polls:
![[image loading]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Austrian_Opinion_Polling%2C_30_Day_Moving_Average%2C_2017-2019.png)
For the moment we have a very quiet expert government that consists mainly of conservative bureaucrats under the leadership of chancellor Bierlein, our first female chancellor.
The biggest topics at the moment are probably climate change and corruption. In the aftermath of the Ibiza scandal the executive is looking into quite some stuff concerning illegal party financing, which feels like 75% is shady stuff about the ÖVP and the other stuff mostly about the SPÖ. But I don't believe anything fruitful will come from this, except that SPÖ-FPÖ-PseudoGreens have created some harsh laws regarding big donations towards parties, which mainly hits the conservatives and neoliberals.
