You thought your politics are weird in the US? Rethink your views....
Today the new Austrian government has been confirmed by the Austrian President. Its a great coalition between the Social Democrats and the Peoples party (conservatives). Those two are the two major parties in Austria.
This act was overshadowed by a demonstration in front of the Ballhausplatz, the political heart of the capital Vienna. Who demonstrated? The opposition? No. It was the youth organisation of the Social democrats. The very one party that will pose the new Chancellor of Austria. There had to be mobilized a few hundred police men to secure the place from the demonstrators.
The irony behind that is that the new Chancellor spend his beginnings in politics for a long time in the very same party organisation, that now wants to bring him down. How that?
(one of the rare violent incidents during protests, the vast majority of the around 2000 demonstrators remained peacefully)
Well, the follow discription of events has become popular here: The Social Democrats won the elections, but lost the coalition negotiations. It seems that the former Chancellor Schüssel from the conservatives was so skilled in it that we have now a red chancellor but a black (conservative) government program...
PS:
Thats already the second government that could only go to the confirmation by the President with heavy police protection. (The first Schüssel government had to go subterranian to the Hofburg because on street level the mob fought against the police.)
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