Austrian Elections... more messed up than the US???

Here is my short-ish explanation of yesterday's elections in Austria that have people worried (including myself... and most of Austria):

There are 5 parties that will hold seats in the parliament come January(ish). The SPOe (Social Party of Austria--Labour) and the OeVP (Austrian People's Party--Capitalist) won the most votes, 29,7% and 25,6% respectively. They are basically centrist parties that are not too extereme about anything. They have, in a coalition, ruled for the past 18 months, and not done a very good job, so the Austrian people are not very happy.

The Green party won 9,8% of the vote, but still got seats in the parliament (I think they have to have at least 5% to get seats). The other two parties, the BZOe and it's split-off party FPOe are the far right, leaning heavily fascist parties. One of their main positions is VERY anti-immigration, especially of Muslims... They won 11,0% and 18,0% respectively on Sunday. The reason that they won soooo many seats, as stated before, is because the SPO and the OVP did not do a good job ruling together before. So now, the parties need to figure out how to create a coalition so that they can have the majority & choose the leaders (similar to the UK, right?). Unfortunately, the two parties that naturally go together, the SPO and the OVP, cannot rule together because of how badly they did in the past 2 years.

So now the question remains as to who to form a coalition with. The next best party to form with would be the Green party, but they did not win enough votes to put together to get a majority. The two far-right groups cannot form together, both because they fundamentally hate each other... and because they would not have a majority. So basically one of the centrist groups (probably the SPO becacuse they won the majority) will have to band together with one of, or both of, the right-wing fascist groups in order to get a majority... That is where the problems lie.

Our professor went on a rant about slamming immigration, especially since Austria is one of the developed western european countries that has a shrinking population. If the immigration laws are tightened, then the size of the country would shrink so dramatically that it might not be able to function... or support those workers who are on retirement funds... or anyone on any sort of welfare... because there will be no one to pay for it...

The far right people also want Austria to drop out of the EU... and if they don't do that, they want to make sure that Turkey does not become part of the EU.

And I am watching the news... and the guy just said that the youth vote went to the FPO and the BZO, which are the far right groups... that is VERY interesting... idk

We shall see how this plays out... I'm attempting to watch the news report about all of this... but it is in German... and I'm only getting about 1/2 of what they're actually saying...

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