"ÖVP is against ..."
AfD regrets Kickl’s failure in Austria
The right-wing populist Alternative for Germany followed the coalition negotiations in Vienna with great interest and hoped that its sister party, the FPÖ, would make it into the Federal Chancellery. This would probably have given the German blue party even more impetus just a few days before the parliamentary elections. Now the AfD is also very disappointed.
"As in Germany, a blue (co-)government is apparently to be prevented in Austria at all costs", AfD deputy leader Peter Boehringer announced on Wednesday. At the same time, he expressed his conviction: "They are working on absolute blue majorities."
The coalition talks are likely to have failed "above all due to foreign policy issues and the EU question", commented Boehringer. "The ÖVP, just like the CDU in Germany, is supranationalistically opposed to national interests," said the member of the parliamentary friendship group with Austria in the German Bundestag.
"Countries are going to the dogs"
The Bundestag will be re-elected in eleven days, with the AfD likely to become the second strongest force behind the conservative CDU/CSU parties according to the polls. According to Boehringer, the AfD "will probably not yet be the leading party for the chancellorship" after February 23. However, an "absurd firewall has been built against this eventuality" in Germany for years.
This is intended to "prevent rational blue-black centre-right governments wanted by large majorities by all means of left-wing media framing", he criticized. If, instead, "left-wing minority and loser governments continue to be formed, the countries will go to the dogs in an anti-democratic way".
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