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I came across this article and found that it is quite good as to analysis and background. Take the time to read it.
Yet, for me it does not address the main issue. Why did Kurz despite his failings get a 37 per cent support?
Maybe because the Left is doing bad rather than Kurz doing well?
The saddest thing is that Austria is electing a politician promising tax cuts, meaning downgrading a social net that made quality of life in Austria one of the best in the world.
Maybe soon Austrian will start experiencing an NHS like system with long doctors and hospital waiting time. Then they will feel the need to run towards private medical insurance and private pensions.
Sad, I wonder if they understand what they voted for.
In the past, whether the Right won or the Left, the country was managed by a coalition of OVP and SPO, mainstream right and left.
This made a balance that preserved both competitive economy with superb social net system.
They never experienced a full rule of the Right with tax cuts, disregard for wealth distribution, and active destruction of the social net system.
What is really sad is that Social Democrats and Greens are not forming a coalition while in reality they meet over so many subjects and social issues.
Big business cannot be green, and most probably damage will be done before the Greens realize the real price of an alliance with Kurz.
Let's wait and see.
I just hope that populism and the failure of social democrats will not ruin a country that until now was a synonym of good life.
Though sadly many of its inhabitants do not understand or realize their luck.
I came across this article and found that it is quite good as to analysis and background. Take the time to read it.
Yet, for me it does not address the main issue. Why did Kurz despite his failings get a 37 per cent support?
Maybe because the Left is doing bad rather than Kurz doing well?
The saddest thing is that Austria is electing a politician promising tax cuts, meaning downgrading a social net that made quality of life in Austria one of the best in the world.
Maybe soon Austrian will start experiencing an NHS like system with long doctors and hospital waiting time. Then they will feel the need to run towards private medical insurance and private pensions.
Sad, I wonder if they understand what they voted for.
In the past, whether the Right won or the Left, the country was managed by a coalition of OVP and SPO, mainstream right and left.
This made a balance that preserved both competitive economy with superb social net system.
They never experienced a full rule of the Right with tax cuts, disregard for wealth distribution, and active destruction of the social net system.
What is really sad is that Social Democrats and Greens are not forming a coalition while in reality they meet over so many subjects and social issues.
Big business cannot be green, and most probably damage will be done before the Greens realize the real price of an alliance with Kurz.
Let's wait and see.
I just hope that populism and the failure of social democrats will not ruin a country that until now was a synonym of good life.
Though sadly many of its inhabitants do not understand or realize their luck.
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