All Change, Please
The Austrian electorate knows what it doesn't want, yet what might follow the current ÖVP-Green coalition remains far from clear
Servus!
One might think announcing a plan to subsidize household energy bills might have given the government a much-needed boost in the polls. If anything, however, things are looking worse for the conservative People’s Party (ÖVP) than ever before. In a survey conducted between September 7 and 15 and published September 17, the ÖVP slid to third in the polls (21 percent) behind the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ, 29 percent) and far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ, 23 percent).