This is going to be a quick little sprint through exercises in parliamentary democracy as we’ve come to know and abhor it here over the past couple of years.
First, a quick touch on Canada, where the anointed and appointed liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Davos-blessed replacement for twee former Prime Minister Justin ‘Fidelito’ Trudeau, and the conservative challenger Pierre Poilievre.
Poilievre had been looking like a shoo-in, but dang. He badly fumbled Trump’s trolling about ’51st state,’ etc., and it has been all uphill since then.
I could not begin to tell you how this is going to shake out now.
Poilievre was a disastrous candidate. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Siding with Carney on tariffs and the economy, instead of proposing a “fresh start” deal with Trump and eliminating trade barriers on both sides which is what he should have done.
— Ojisan Kaichou (@OjisanKaichou) April 28, 2025
Are people so mad at Trump that they’re willing to forget everything the Liberal Party has done to them and is promising to do?
Pierre for PM!!!💙🌊🌊🌊 pic.twitter.com/auNs8W9dsL
— 🇨🇦 Canadians Battle Cry (@__Buu__) April 28, 2025
That seems needlessly self-defeating, but, then again, I guess I wouldn’t be surprised.
Final projection for the Canadian election today pic.twitter.com/GZ0QEvojVB
— Tyler 🏳️🌈 (@Tyler_The_Wise) April 28, 2025
Disappointed, but not surprised.
I will simply hope the conservatives shock the world.
Then, this past weekend’s Vienna City Council elections. These are particularly interesting if you remember a post I had last week.
In it, I wrote about how the Vienna school system had become a majority Muslim institution, with 41% of children attending identifying as such. Teachers have been abandoning the city schools for rural areas where there is less violence in the classrooms (!), and traditional German is spoken vice their having to repeat a sentence a dozen times.
There’s also the festering issue of some €50,000 per year in benefits paid to ‘immigrant families’ when what’s considered a well-to-do Viennese family exists on €60,000 per annum before taxes that migrants don’t pay.
Would any of those burgeoning problems impact the election results and the status of the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPÖ)? Let me also add that, not unlike many major American cities which are now 3rd World sh**tholes, Vienna has been run by the uber liberal SPÖ since 1945. Kinda sounds like when we say, ‘When was the last Republican mayor of [insert major city]?’ The results have been sliding ever downhill.
Once all the votes were in Sunday night, the SPÖ was still on top, but, whoa, boy – there was some groundbreaking populist surging going on.
The Vienna city council elections have been won by the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPÖ).
Despite having its second-worst result ever at 39 per cent in the ballot on on April 27, the party won a clear relative majority and will continue to govern Austria’s capital as it has since the end of the Second World War.
The Freedom Party (FPÖ) came in second with 21 per cent – tripling its vote compared to the previous election in 2015.
The right-wingers managed to attract both disillusioned SPÖ and disgruntled Conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) voters, as a ballot analysis showed.
The ÖVP continued its sharp downward trend in Austrian elections. The party lost 11 percentage points and slipped to less than 10 per cent in the final result. The Greens party came in largely unchanged at 14 per cent while the Liberal Neos party achieved 10 per cent.
Austrian far right triples result in Vienna election: x https://t.co/dBNHJ5sBBF pic.twitter.com/lUSeEDuNPl
— Euractiv (@Euractiv) April 27, 2025
If ‘right-wingers’ and FPÖ ring a bell, that’s because they won the national election this past fall.
🇦🇹 Great news from Austria, where the nationalist Freedom Party has just come out as the largest party in today’s election. They are projected to receive 29% of the vote – two points ahead of the conservatives.
Here’s their leader advocating remigration.
pic.twitter.com/hyVUrYPRqC— Keith Woods (@KeithWoodsYT) September 29, 2024
But as European parliamentary democracy inevitably seems to roll, the Freedom Party was iced out of forming a government, even when grudgingly allowed to by Austria’s president.
Coincidentally, that is exactly what’s going to happen to the second-place FPÖ finishers in Vienna, too.
No seat at the table for the boogieman.
…Despite a drop in support, the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) remained in first place to continue leading the Austrian capital.
Sámuel Ágoston Mráz, director of the Nézőpont Institute, told Magyar Nemzet that the strengthening of the FPÖ could have a serious impact on the rest of the country, as well as internationally. Coalition negotiations have now begun, and the party leaders have also assessed the results.
…Michael Ludwig, the socialist mayor of Vienna, made it clear in a statement on Sunday evening that the SPÖ remained the strongest party in the elections and that negotiations will begin with several parties about possible cooperation.
“We want to form a stable city and provincial government before the summer,” Ludwig said while ruling out the possibility of a coalition with the FPÖ.
It’s not like the little leftists didn’t trying to take the FPÖ out of the race before the election.
Well, the FPÖ leader, anyway. And they were way too fiendish to use a bullet.
They snuck along behind Herbert Kickl while he was mountain climbing and pulled out his anchor points. Made it a teensy bit hairy on the climb home.
Left-wing extremists destroy Alpine climbing route used by right-wing FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl
In a move that could have killed climbers, left-wing extremists attacked a via ferrata climbing route used by Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) leader Herbert Kickl, leaving not only him in danger but also other alpine climbers.
The FPÖ labeled it a “left-wing extremist attack” and is offering a reward for any information that leads to the arrest of the perpetrators.
Kickl climbed the “Ausweichkogel” route with mountaineers Thomas Behm and Robert Gruber in October 2020, which gave them the right to name it.
Left-wing extremists removed the safety hooks used on the “Secret Swabian” route with a cutting disc in a move that could have cost climbers their lives, according to Austrian publication Salzburger Nachrichten.
And they bragged about it, too. So classic.
…The perpetrators shared images of the destroyed security hooks, with the group claiming a political motive behind the incident.
It’s not just our progs that are soulless, sick puppies.
It’s the fatal disease of the movement.
As is their complete disregard for the wishes of the people they are supposed to serve.
…Vienna has become a popular choice for immigrants.
For example, more than half of the 95,000 Syrians in Austria live in Vienna. Many of them may have been attracted to what critics see as the city’s disproportionately generous social welfare programme.
According to the Austrian integration ministry, 75 per cent of Syrians in Vienna were on welfare, compared to only 30 per cent in the rest of Austria.
Ahead of the latest city election, the SPÖ was heavily criticised for what many saw as pandering to conservative Muslim voters, especially among the Turkish community.
Voter analysis showed the SPÖ did especially well with first and second-generation immigrants but was less popular with indigenous Austrians.
After the Vienna results were announced, the Freedom Party feels it has the wind at its back and has put the Social Democrats on notice.
WE’RE COMING FOR YOU
…The Vienna leader of the Austrian Freedom Party, Dominik Nepp, told broadcaster ORF: “The huge vote of confidence from the voters has been clearly demonstrated. We have tripled our support. This is a clear sign that people want change. From our perspective, a red-blue coalition would be what many people want. Mayor Ludwig must finally abandon his exclusionary policies. We will consistently monitor the functioning of Vienna!”
Herbert Kickl, national chairman of the FPÖ, also spoke: “The strong result of Dominik Nepp and the FPÖ shows that people in Vienna also want change, and change that puts the people back at the center of politics. The people are sovereign, and this sovereign has given a clear signal in Vienna today.”
I’ll be checking first thing in the morning to see what happened with our neighbor to the north.
Sure hope it works out.
