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Centrist
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posted 02 October 2005 05:43 PM      Profile for Centrist     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Today's results from the Austrian state of Steiermark (Styria):

OeVP: 38.66% (-8.61%)
SPOe: 41.72% (+9.3%)
FPOe: 4.59% (-7.84%) [Haider's old party]
Green: 4.68% (-.85%)
KPOe: 6.32% (+5.29%)
BZOe: 1.72% [Haider's new party]

Interesting result as Styria has been an OeVP stronghold since 1945, with the SPOe now obtaining power and the Communists entering the Styrian parliament for the first time since 1970.

http://www.verwaltung.steiermark.at/cms/ziel/4515211/DE/

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America is Behind
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posted 02 October 2005 07:28 PM      Profile for America is Behind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I gues the FPO lost votes to the KPO: Just idiots looking to vote for hte most radical party they can find...Sort of like those weird Quebeckers who vote NDP federally and ADQ provinically.
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spiffy
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posted 02 October 2005 08:38 PM      Profile for spiffy     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
musta missed something. when did haider leave the fpoe and form a new party? and why?
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Vansterdam Kid
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posted 02 October 2005 11:25 PM      Profile for Vansterdam Kid   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
So SPOe are the social democrats I assume? Not all of us can read high German (or any German), or would know what all of the abbreviations are for.
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Stockholm
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posted 03 October 2005 12:04 AM      Profile for Stockholm     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
SPOe (it is actually an "O" with an umlaut but we can't do umlauts in babble!)

Stands for Sozialistiche Partei Oesterreich (Socialist Party of Austria)


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Centrist
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posted 03 October 2005 12:14 AM      Profile for Centrist     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Haider left the FPOe sometime in April/05, due to infighting, and created the BZOe (the Alliance for Austria's Future), which are also now represented in the OeVP federal coalition along with the FPOe.

Austria has simliar political and party structures to neighbouring Germany:

OeVP - Austrian Peoples Party (akin to Christian Democrats);

SPOe - Social Democrats;

FPOe - Freedom Party, historically the liberal party until Haider took them on a far-right populist bent;

KPOe - Communist Party

[The "Oe" is just another form of writing "O" for Austria (Oesterreich) without the umlaut (two dots on top)]


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Stockholm
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posted 03 October 2005 12:27 AM      Profile for Stockholm     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
There is a GReen Party in Austria too, but no Left Party since they don't have a former East Germany to supply them with Communists
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