Shockwaves
across Europe as far-right party wins Austrian election by Katie Mansfield,
4/25/16
THE LEADER of an
anti-migrant party has taken pole position in the Austrian presidential
elections - paving the way for the disruption to the two-party government
system which has ruled the country since 1945.
Norbert
Hofer, the candidate for Austria's right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ), won 36.4 per
cent of the vote, and will face an independent candidate in the final vote next
month.
It
was the Freedom Party's best result in a national election and comes after a
campaign that focused on the impact of the migrant crisis.
More
than 100,000 refugees have arrived in Austria since last summer. The
migrant crisis has divided the country and, in a major U-turn, the government,
who initially backed German chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policy, shut
Austria’s borders.
FPÖ
leader Heinz-Christian Strache
said: "This is the beginning of a new political era. Today political
history is being written in Austria."
“One
thing has become clear here - a huge and massive dissatisfaction with the
government... I am convinced that as president, Norbert Hofer, will act as
protector of the Austrian people.”
Hofer,
who has run an anti-immigrant and anti-Europe campaign will now go head-to-head
with environmentalist and pro-refugee Alexander van der Bellen on May 22 for
the president post, which is largely a ceremonial role.
The
result, if confirmed in the next round, means that for the first time since
1945, Austria will not have a president backed by either the left leaning SPÖ
or the conservative ÖVP.
Concerns
have been raised if Hofer is elected he could push to bring forward a
parliamentary election due to take place in 2018 as support for his party has surged in the wake
of the migrant crisis.
Hofer’s
success marks the first time that neither of the main ruling parties have been
in the running for the presidency since the Second World War.
Obama PRAISES Merkel for handling of migrant
crisis but Germans want her OUT, by Rebecca Perring,
4/25/16
BARACK OBAMA has praised Angela Merkel for her handling of
the escalating EU migrant crisis despite growing cracks in the German
chancellor’s power base as her approval ratings plummet over her immigration
stance.
During a visit to
Hannover, the US president said: “She is on the right side of history on this.
"In this globalized world, it is very difficult for us to simply build
walls.”
His remarks come amid
an increasingly fractious debate over radical Islamism in Germany, sparked by
Mrs Merkel's ill-fated open door asylum policy.
Shocking opinion polls
delivered a crushing blow to the
German Chancellor as
it was revealed Mrs. Merkel's conservatives lost in two out of three state
elections.
Germans appear to be
punishing her accommodative refugee policy.
More than 1.1 million
migrants entered Germany last year, with most coming from Middle Eastern and
North African countries.
But Mrs Merkel's grip
on power is growing ever weaker, with rebellion growing across the country
against her controversial immigration policies.
She has consistently
berated other EU states for introducing border controls to bring the migrant
flow under control, ever since she made a pledge last summer to welcome all
Syrians with open arms.
However growing cracks
appeared and members of her own movement begin to openly question her stance on
immigration following the horrific Cologne sex acts, forcing her to back
down.
Immigrants were
responsible for the sex attacks in Cologne on New Year's Eve when gangs of them
robbed and molested hundreds of women.
And in what appeared
to be a turnaround, in January the German chancellor promised to give
authorities more powers to crack down on migrants who commit crimes, including
deporting them.
Chancellor Merkel
performed a u-turn on her stance with Syrian and Iraqi refugees, saying that
they will have to leave Germany once Islamic State (ISIS) has finally been
defeated.
Earlier today, Mr.
Obama received a very warm welcome from the German chancellor, just a day
before 30,000 protestors took to the streets to campaign against, which the
president is fiercely pushing for.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/664006/Barack-Obama-visit-Germany-Angela-Merkel-migrant-crisis-EU-handling
Comments
Europeans
need to realize that their elected officials are to blame for bringing Europe
to the brink of extinction. Europeans
need to deport most of their Muslims back to their home countries and revoke
their citizenship if they have it. They need to wipe their welfare rolls clean
and spend that money to reduce their government debts.
Europeans
need to quit the UN and the EU and reestablish their own sovereignty. They need
to repeal all oppressive laws and give their citizens the freedom to make their
own choices about everything. European
governments need to get out of the “Nanny-State” business and shrink their
debt, footprint and cost.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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