Post #2091137

Recently (after the Hungarian elections) these unattributed posters started appearing on sites across Vienna. This one's at our local tram stop. It's now been discovered who was responsible for them, and the answer is: the ÖVP. Yep, the same party which willingly went into coalition with the FPÖ and nearly went into coalition with them again after the last election. Of course they aren't doing this because they have a genuine concern for the future of liberal democracy and want to resist any movements to autocracy. They're doing it because the FPÖ represent a serious electoral threat to the ÖVP for the same reason that Reform represents a serious electoral threat to the Tories - they're crap and uninspiring enough that even with some gentle cosying up to the far right they're still losing votes. The whole "marionette with strings held by an invisible hand" imagery is.. yeah, I know what they're getting at there.