‘Whoever Loves Austria Is Sh*t’ – Austria’s New President Hates His Own Country

[MikeWB]

They called it an "election gimmick" and a "campaign gag", but the new president-elect of Austria once presided over his party's campaign that declared: "Anyone who loves Austria must be shit".

Alexander Van der Bellen – who appears to have defeated the Freedom Party's Norbert Hofer by around just 30,000 of nearly five million votes – has a track record of opposing the nation state as a concept, and his own as a reality.
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In 2007, while he was leader of the Austrian Greens, the party published a picture of a dog with the Austrian flag in its mouth. The poster read: "Take your flag for your gag", followed by the declaration that anyone who loves the country "must be sh*t".

The flag "joke" was a play on a campaign urging dog owners to place their dog's excrement in bags and trash cans. The Austrian greens replaced the bag with a flag of Austria in the image (right).

And while, of course, efforts were made to distance Van der Bellen from this 2007 Green Party initiative, the issue re-emerged on the run up to this weekend's final round of presidential election voting. Far be it from a "gag" or one-off incident, critics say, this attitude against borders and nations runs deep through the Austrian Green Party which is now in charge of the presidency of the country.

Newspapers drew attention to another more recent incident, whereby a leading Green activist declared: "Austria [is a] lousy piece of shit!" when discussing the country's recent border controls to deal with Europe's migrant crisis. "These are facts, not subjective opinion," Georg H. posted to his Facebook page.

Perhaps it is unsurprising that the son of Russian aristocrats would have little affinity to his country of birth, but Van der Bellen's politics have taken an extreme turn over the course of his life.

He now opposes nation statehood in general, instead arguing that European Union member states should move towards full EU federalism. This means a 'United States of Europe' made up of 'states' in a loose, American sense.

And just like his German counterparts, Van der Bellen argues that refugees are an economic opportunity to integrate "young, intelligent workers". This is despite masses of evidence emerging over the past year that shows most migrants into Europe are not intelligent workers, but rather, completely illiterate and scarcely skilled.

While people are quick to point out that the office of the president in Austria is mostly ceremonial, he still has the power to swear in the head of the federal government, the Chancellor. And on this point Van der Bellen has been pretty clear: he wouldn't do it.

Speaking to the Kurier.at, he said: "One should not underestimate the political position of President. He is elected by popular vote with an absolute majority. My position is that coordination at European level is more important than ever. The big questions about refugees can only be resolved at EU level. A party which has the EU's destruction in mind is not appropriate, in my view, to serve as Chancellor."

Pressed further, he added: "The issue was not that the FPÖ would not be able to govern. It's about whether [HC] Strache could be the Federal Chancellor. Here I am clearly of the opinion, with the information currently available and the statements of Strache and Kickl: [It is] Hard to imagine."

No doubt this would cause a major constitutional crisis in the country, if the president refuses to swear in the Chancellor of the most popular political party.

In his own party's words: "Anyone who loves Austria must be shit"... if he swears in Strache and FPO, in his own frame of thinking, he would be putting a turd in charge of the country.

The next Austrian legislative elections are in 2018.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/23/whoever-loves-austria-sht-president-elect-beat-nationalist-hofer-used-anti-patriotic-slogans/

[JohnM]

The Austrian Greens, are just the new name of the Communist Party. I'm pretty sure either that, or it's the Communist party that broke up into the left and the greens. And they frequently form a coalition. Anybody can say they're green of course.

I find the election results very suspicious.

Jörg Haider was a populist and they had him executed. I remember studying that report closely. Every missed opportunity causes an advancement of the zionist-jewish cause, and a detriment to others.

[rmstock]

AUSTRIA. ELECTION FRAUD UNDERWAY?
https://birdflu666.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/austria-election-fraud-underway/

  "Globalist candidate and Green Party leader Alexander van der Bellen has
   won the presidential elections in Austria due to postal votes,
   according to Interior Ministry results.
   
   The only problem is that the results were posted at 9 pm last night
   before the counting of postal votes had started. The record number of
   postal votes is actually scheduled to be counted today.
   
   
   
   http://www.heute.at/bpw16/Riesen-Wirbel-um-dieses-Wahlergebnis-des-Ministeriums;art83655,1291428
   
   http://orf.at/#/stories/2340516/
   
   In addition, the postal votes attributed to Van der Bellen on the
   Interior Ministry website are not enough for him to win. This can be
   figured out by anyone knowing simple arithmetic and underlines just how
   desperate the establishment are to get van der Bellen announced as the
   next president.
   
   The story went viral on the internet, forcing the Interior Ministry to
   remove the results. A spokesperson claimed the results were a "test"
   which had gone on online by mistake.
   
   The incident  has fuelled fears that Austria's presidential elections
   have been fixed, and that the establishment are determined to deny
   Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer the post by any means they can.
   
   While demonized by the mainstream media as a far right candidate, Hofer
   has promoted an agenda which resists Globalist take over. He is, for
   example, against TTIP and against mass illegal immigration.
   
   Establishment media are carrying headlines of a run off election on a
   knife edge between van der Bellen and candidate Norbert Hofer when
   Hofer had, in fact, obtained 144,000 more votes and an almost 4% lead.
   
   Postal votes are notoriously open to fraud.
   
   Who, after all, is going to check if all those little old ladies in
   care homes really did tick the box for van der Bellen?
   
   It would be no surprise if van der Bellen does become president as a
   result of them today.
   It remains to be seen whether the Freedom Party will contest any such
   result as they should or whether they will accept what seems to be a
   stolen election.
   
   
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See also the interactive election results page :

http://wahl16.bmi.gv.at/1605-bw_ov_0.html

[rmstock]

Inside Re: How Women DESTROY NATIONS * / & other UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOMkl3ApTK0

The Black Pigeon uses the argument that it were the Austrian Women who voted
for the Green policy of allowing refugees without limits into Austria and thus
Hofer lost the election. Here's an article telling it like it was : vote fraud
pure and simple. If the Luxembourgh Wheelchair-bound EU-Chief looses sleep
over an election somewhere in a EU member country, and the sovereign reign and
power of the self-declared bureaucrats in Strassbourgh and Brussels is endangered,
any means possible will be applied to prevent their toppling.
  "Van der Bellen "victory" in Austria appears to have been fraudulent.
     WMR reported that this was a "Soros-flipped" election."


Wednesday, 25 May 2016
Was the Austrian Election "Stolen"?
Written by  William F. Jasper
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/23276-was-the-austrian-election-stolen

   
   Photo showing posters of Norbert Hofer and Alexander van der Bellen: AP Images

  "Were "election irregularities" in Austria's presidential election on
   Sunday actually vote fraud? Did EU elites use extreme tactics to steal
   the election from a "fed-up" electorate that is rebelling against the
   EU-imposed migration onslaught, economic stagnation, gestapo-like
   political correctness, and bureaucratic regulatory tyranny? That may
   well be the case.
   
   The razor-thin election result in Austria's presidential race last
   Sunday was heralded by EU politicians and the establishment media
   worldwide as a hair-breadth "escape" from a "far-right" takeover. When
   the live vote was counted Sunday night, the result was too close to
   call. Would Austria's next president be "far right" Norbert Hofer of
   the Freedom Party or the "moderate" socialist Green Party candidate
   Alexander van der Bellen? The result would be determined by postal
   votes, with nearly 900,000 Austrians — 14 percent of the voters —
   casting their ballot by mail this year. On Monday, the tabulation of
   the mail-in vote was announced to be in van der Bellen's favor, by a
   mere 31,026 votes, or 0.6 percent. According to election officials, van
   der Bellen had squeaked out a 50.3 percent of the vote total to Hofer's
   49.7 percent.
   
   There were immediate charges by some Freedom Party supporters that the
   election had been "stolen." However, Norbert Hofer called upon his
   supporters to remain calm, and while graciously conceding electoral
   defeat, said he would be working even harder to insure the Freedom
   Party wins big in the next parliamentary election. "It will be
   impossible to keep us out of government," Hofer said on Tuesday.
   
   As it turns out, though, Freedom Party accusations that the election
   was stolen from Hofer may indeed be accurate. The Elections Department
   of Austria's Ministry of the Interior announced today that it is
   investigating "irregularities" involving tens of thousands of postal
   votes, particularly those concentrated in four towns."The Austrian
   Ministry of the Interior has announced an investigation into 'voting
   irregularities in four towns during the recent presidential election,"
   the New Observer reported. "In all cases, the FPÖ's [Freedom Party's]
   candidate Norbert Hofer won the "live" votes, but lost when the postal
   votes were counted."
   
   The New Observer article continues:
   
      According to an official statement from Interior Ministry spokesman
      Robert Stein, the "irregularities" all involved the opening and
      "counting" of postal votes the night before they should have been. The
      Interior Ministry has not said that there has been any fraud, and that
      its investigation — at this stage — merely wants to "close the gaps" in
      how tens of thousands of postal votes could have lain opened all night.
   
      The investigation will focus on four towns in Carinthia which have so
      far been confirmed cases. The investigation was started after the
      Interior Ministry received an official complaint against the city of
      Villach in the south, introduced by the state's official Economic and
      Corruption Prosecutor's office.
   
      According to the complaint, directed by the head of the electoral
      commission, postal votes were opened on the Sunday and "counted"
      without the presence of electoral witnesses. Officially, all postal
      votes were supposed to be kept under lock and key, and only opened in
      the presence of witnesses ... on Monday morning.
   
      Stein, who is Head of the Elections Department of the Ministry of the
      Interior, said in his statement that following on from the Villach
      complaint, a further three similar cases have been identified. The
      three additional towns identified were Villach Land, Wolfsberg, and
      Hermagor.
   
   "In all these cases, it has been confirmed that the postal vote
   counting started on Sunday without witnesses and in contradiction to
   the official rules," reports the New Observer, before noting: "In
   Villach, Hofer won with 56.2 percent of the votes before the postal
   ballots were counted. Hofer also won in Villach Land with 59.3 percent,
   and in Wolfsberg where he took 67.6 percent. In Hermagor, Hofer won
   54.4 percent of the vote."
   
   After initially saying there was no evidence of voting fraud, Hofer and
   Freedom Party chairman Heinz-Christian Strache have stated that they
   are looking into the new charges now being investigated by the Ministry
   of the Interior.
   
   Who's "Extreme," Who's Moderate"? EU Insiders Stack the Deck
   
   Regardless of the outcome of the official postal vote fraud
   investigation, it is clear that the prospect of Norbert Hofer's
   presidential run was a matter of great alarm in the higher circles of
   power inside the European Union. Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the
   European Commission, the autocratic bureaucracy that wields the real
   power in the EU superstate, was especially abusive and intrusive in the
   lead-up to the election.
   
   "The prospect of seeing the far-right win forces me to say that I don't
   like them," Juncker told French newspaper Le Monde on the Friday before
   the vote. "The Austrians don't like to hear this but I don't care:
   there is no debate or dialogue with the far-right." That was but one of
   his many inappropriate, partisan remarks attacking Hofer and the
   Freedom Party.
   
   But Juncker went much further than merely casting insults and
   aspersions; he threatened to use newly usurped powers against Austria
   if voters didn't vote the way he wanted, clothing his naked grasp for
   power under threadbare claims of protecting "the rule of law" and
   "democratic norms."
   
   "The EU will isolate and use sanctions against any far-right or
   populist governments that are swept to power or presidential office on
   the wave of popular anger against migration," the Times (of London)
   reported — without any apparent disapproval — regarding Juncker's
   arrogant threats.
   
   In an article on Tuesday entitled "Juncker vows to use new powers to
   block the far-right," the Times reported:
   
      Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, made clear
      at the weekend that Norbert Hofer would have been frozen out of EU
      decision-making if he had been elected president of Austria. "There is
      no debate or dialogue with the far-right," Mr. Juncker said.
   
      Under powers given to the commission in 2014, he can trigger a "rule of
      law mechanism" for countries that depart from democratic norms by
      putting a government under constitutional supervision. Ultimately, a
      country can be stripped of voting rights in the EU or have funding
      blocked.
   
      In a test run for the new EU constitutional powers, the commission has
      issued unprecedented orders to Poland, instructing the newly elected
      right-wing government to bow to Polish judges who have struck down laws
      passed by the parliament.
   
   "Mr Hofer had alarmed the EU by threatening to politicise the office of
   Austrian president by wielding powers, never used before, to trigger
   national elections at a moment most favourable for the far-right
   Freedom party (FPO)," The Times story noted. "Though he lost narrowly,
   Austria witnessed the biggest far-right surge in Europe since the
   Second World War."
   
   Yes, according to the Times, Juncker, and the powers that be in the EU
   plutocracy, Hofer was "threatening to politicise the office of Austrian
   president." How so? By merely exercising an executive power provided
   for in Austria's constitution, one that is used with some frequency in
   countries with parliamentary governments. It is Juncker and his fellow
   Eurocrats who are politicizing everything, including the EU Commission
   presidency, which has been steadily usurping new powers, in violation
   of the "rule of law" and "democratic norms."
   
   Juncker, a former World Bank functionary and career politician from
   Luxemberg (former finance minister and prime minister), has been a key
   architect of the EU's monetary and political centralization, including
   the Maastricht Treaty, which introduced the euro currency, and earned
   him the moniker "Mr. Euro."
   
   Juncker and his fellow globalists — especially those in the major
   corporate media — wasted no opportunity to label Hofer and the Freedom
   Party as "far right," "extremist," "racist," "xenophobic," "Nazi,"
   "Islamophobic," and "anti-immigrant." In fact, it is difficult to find
   a headline or "news" story about the Austrian election that does not
   include "far right" as though it is an official part of the Freedom
   Party's name (e.g. Far Right Freedom Party, FRFP).
   
   Van der Bellen and his socialist Greens, on the other hand, of course,
   are portrayed as reasonable "moderates." The very establishment
   Financial Times (of London), for instance, tells us that: "Mr. Van der
   Bellen's victory — albeit with a margin of only 31,000 votes —
   nonetheless shows it is still possible to adopt moderate policies and
   win elections in Austria."
   
   Van der Bellen is a "moderate," naturally, because he endorses
   homosexual "marriage," LBGT "rights," more Islamic "refugees," more EU
   centralization, more and more restrictions on national sovereignty,
   etc., etc.
   
   "I ask all those who don't like me but perhaps like Hofer even less to
   vote for me," van der Bellen had pleaded with voters prior to the
   runoff. "It's a path-breaking decision between a cooperative and an
   authoritative style."
   
   However, the 72-year-old van der Bellen, a grizzled and disheveled
   economics professor and career politician, appears to be far more
   authoritarian than the affable and dapper 45-year-old Hofer. And
   certainly more uncivil.
   
   "I don't want that Austria becomes the first country in western Europe
   led by a populist right-wing, pan-Germanic fraternity member," van der
   Bellen told Austrian voters. He also vowed not to swear in Freedom
   Party chairman Heinz-Christian Strache as chancellor if the party,
   currently ahead in polls, wins the next general election scheduled for
   2018.
   
   That remark prompted Hofer to call van der Bellen a "fascist green
   dictator." Of course, although van der Bellen, Juncker, and their
   allies have smeared Hofer and the Freedom Party with the Nazi label, it
   is really the Eurocrats themselves who more aptly fit that brand. The
   official name of the Nazi Party, after all, was the National Socialist
   German Worker's Party. They were ultra-left-wing socialists and
   authoritarian environmentalists — much like their socialist brethren
   led today by van der Bellen and his Greens.
   
   Related stories:
   
   Germany Does Not Know Where 130,000 Asylum Seekers Are
   Refugee Crisis Has Europe on the Brink, Establishment Admits
   Globalists Who Created Refugee Crisis Now Exploiting It
   Insider: EU-U.S. Must Take More Refugees, Get Rid of Sovereignty
   Daniel Hannan, MEP: Opting Out of the European Union (Video)
   Brexit Panic: CFR, Media Step Up Campaign to Scare British Voters
   WikiLeaks: IMF Plans New Economic Crisis Before Brexit Vote "

[MikeWB]