A lawmaker for the German anti-immigration party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has had his bank account closed for unknown reasons. Sascha Schlösser, a recently elected member of the Thuringia state parliament, made the public aware of his plight in a post on X on Thursday, September 5th.
“The DKB [Deutsche Kreditbank Aktiengesellschaft] did not miss the opportunity to congratulate me on my election as a member of the state parliament for the AfD and has terminated all my accounts,” he wrote, attaching a photo of the letter sent to him by his bank. The bank did not give a reason for the closure, but all signs point to yet another ‘debanking’ scandal—where financial institutions get rid of clients for political reasons.
The DKB did not explain its decision but cited the general terms and conditions, according to which the contract may be terminated by both parties at any time. When asked by conservative media outlet Apollo News, the institution chose not to disclose the reason for termination due to banking secrecy.
However, the publication writes, the decision was taken shortly after Sascha Schlösser, who has until now been a member of the Erfurt city council, was elected to the state parliament of Thuringia.
The AfD became the strongest party in the state following the elections on September 1st, winning a third of all seats. The anti-globalist, anti-immigration party’s triumph and its rise across Germany has angered the liberal political establishment which has been using all sorts of political and legal methods in recent years to undermine the credibility of the party.
The Berliner Volksbank recently closed the AfD’s donation account, bowing to pressure from a liberal group who said AfD is “outside the constitutional order.” Last year Tino Chrupalla, the co-leader of the party, stated that Postbank had terminated his account because he’s an AfD member.
De-banking has become a phenomenon all over the Western world, famously brought to the media’s attention by British politician Nigel Farage whose account at the British private bank Coutts was closed due to his political views.
Sascha Schlösser received his own letter only two days after the elections on Sunday, with the bank requesting him to balance his account and to destroy his credit cards.
Though reasons for the decision were not given, the DKB participates in anti-right-wing initiatives, writes Apollo News. The bank says it has “committed itself to democracy, the rule of law, diversity and tolerance,” and after the European elections in June—where the AfD were runners-up—it stated that the election had made it clear “that democracy will not be maintained by itself and must be constantly defended.”
As an institution owned by the publicly regulated Bayerische Landesbank, the DKB should be committed instead to being politically neutral, which it clearly is not.
Following the failed attack on a police station in Linz am Rhein (photo), investigators have discovered evidence of radical Islamist motivation. A 29-year-old Albanian man stormed the police station in the Rhineland-Palatinate town at 2.40 a.m. with a machete and shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’, the Koblenz public prosecutor’s office reported.
‘As part of the ongoing search measures in the flat, a flag of the terrorist organisation ‘Islamic State’ drawn on a wall was discovered.’ The State Centre for Combating Terrorism and Extremism took over the investigation ‘for attempted murder by attack with a machete’.
The attempted murder of the migrant on Friday morning was apparently only prevented by a security gate. The 29-year-old stormed the police station and threatened to ‘kill the police officers’, according to police spokesman Jürgen Fachinger.
However, only the first of the two doors opened. The officers had to press a button to open the second. And they did not. On the contrary: they also closed the first door in this way, so that the attacker was trapped between the two doors.
All of the officers’ appeals over the intercom to make the attacker realise his hopeless situation were to no avail. The migrant continued to make violent threats and was extremely aggressive.
The Linz police officers then called the Special Forces from Koblenz for help. The special unit stormed the security gate two hours later. They incapacitated the migrant with a Taser and arrested him. The Albanian was slightly injured in the process, according to the police spokesperson. The man is in custody. The public prosecutor’s office will decide later today whether to apply for an arrest warrant.
Support for the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is surging in Brandenburg ahead of the State’s parliament elections this month, data gathered by pollster Infratest dimap has found.
Published on September 6, the survey also showed that support for the country’s Greens had dropped to 5 per cent — down 2 per cent on August — meaning the party risks elimination from the region’s parliament under electoral threshold rules.
As things stand, the AfD looks likely to come first in the September 22 vote with 27 per cent support, up 4 per cent on the previous August survey.
It is followed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), which is also up 4 per cent from the previous poll, now sitting at 23 per cent support.
Other centrist parties have fallen back. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) sits at 18 per cent, down 1 per cent.
Also down is the populist left Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), which has dropped by 2 per cent to 15 per cent.
AfD’s rise came after its successes in both Thuringia and Saxony on September 1, with the party outperforming expectations to finish with more than 30 per cent support.
Although this result saw the party come in first and second place, respectively, it appears unlikely to enter into government as every other group has vowed not to work with them.
Its success is still likely to have a political impact, with the AfD’s Thuringia result giving the party a blocking minority in the State.
As a result, certain official actions there, such as the appointment of judicial and security personnel, cannot go ahead without AfD support.
Mohammed and Jalal, two Moroccan nationals, were sentenced to five-year imprisonment each, with one-third of the sentence suspended, for raping a young man at gunpoint while he had been enjoying a night out with friends in the square in Liège.
Contrary to the wishes of the public prosecutor’s office, the court dismissed the charges of kidnapping, homophobia, and racism. According to the public prosecutor’s office, the criminal acts could have been qualified as such because the suspects held the victim in the toilet and made him scream “Vive le Maroc,” which translates to “Long live Morocco,” in English.
On Nov. 25, 2023, at around 4:00 a.m., while on patrol in the square in Liège, police were stopped by a young man at rue du Pot d’Or, who told them he had been raped. He explained that he had gone to a café with friends to celebrate one of their birthdays, and as soon as they arrived, two men followed them into the toilets.
Mohammed tapped the young man on the shoulder and mimed the gesture of snorting drugs. The two girls declined what appeared to be an offer to consume narcotics, while the complainant was unaware of the meaning of the mimed gesture. Mohammed then said, ”No, it’s not what you think,” winking at the young man.
When the two girls entered the toilet to go to the women’s bathroom, Mohammed grabbed the young man by the hood of his sweatshirt, placing his hand over his mouth to prevent him from shouting out, and led him into the men’s toilet. One of the protagonists pulled out a firearm at that point. A knife was also displayed.
The two convicted migrants then forced the young man to perform oral sex on each of them, hitting him, insulting him, and forcing him to shout “Vive le Maroc.” The two men filmed this act with their phones.
The two suspects were quickly arrested by police.
One of them stated that it was the young victim who had actually sexually assaulted them. However, the court rejected this claim, as the video recovered by police proved the victim’s version of events.
The populist right may not having power in Germany yet but it is certainly their fault that the economy is underperforming, a top globalist thinktank says, blaming them for anti-immigration rhetoric it says is killing economic growth.
The old neoliberal orthodoxy that immigration equals economic growth may be dead and buried in the minds of many, but it still lives on in the hearts of think-tankers like the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), which blames insufficient migrants for Germany’s gloomy economic forecast.
The IfW, which works under the jaunty motto ‘Understanding and Shaping Globalization’, slashed its expectation for growth in 2025, saying unemployment was likely to rise while manufacturing and construction drifts “deeper into recessionary territory”.
While actual political leaders come in for some criticism, with the German central government not spending enough money and the European Central Bank’s interest rate decisions being cited, German media was quick to pick up on the IfW also blaming people talking about border control.
Moritz Schularick, President of the Institute said: “The German economy is increasingly facing a crisis that is not only cyclical but also structural in nature… the asylum debate is poisoning the dialog about the economic need to attract skilled workers from abroad. As long as this remains the case, we can watch our growth opportunities dwindle”.
That immigration is a fundamental ingredient for economic growth has been Western dogma for decades, with practically all discussion of the possibility of border control ultimately ending with governments refusing to budge because they believe border controls would crash the economy. Yet cracks are finally starting to appear in this belief, with a report earlier this year looking at the British experiencing noting that, shockingly, record levels of immigration did not in fact correlate with increased in GDP per capita.
According to data from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), while the United Kingdom’s GDP grew by 0.1 per cent last year — amid record levels of immigration — GDP per person fell by 0.8 per cent, drastically behind the G7 average of 1.2 per cent, despite the UK seeing the second-highest level of population growth, which has largely been driven by mass migration… The CPS report remarked: “If large-scale migration of the sort we’ve seen is really so great for the economy, we have to ask ourselves why we are not seeing this in the GDP per capita data”.
… The report found that of the net two million migrants who came to the UK from non-EU nations over the past five years, just 15 per cent arrived in the country with the principal aim of working.
The report also found that the rush to import people from around the world has come with an economic cost. Migrants from Spain, for example, earn 40 per cent more on average than migrants from Pakistan or Bangladesh. Meanwhile, migrants from the Middle East, North Africa or Turkey between the ages of 25 to 64 were nearly twice as likely to be ‘economically inactive’ than native-born Britons.
Last week, the German government, led by social democrat Olaf Scholz, deported 28 convicted criminals to Kabul. Among them was a rejected asylum-seeker who took part in the brutal and cunning gang rape of a 14-year-old girl. According to the German mainstream media, each of the deported criminals, including the gang rapist, was given 1000 Euros in cash to help start a new life back home in Afghanistan.
This is civilizational decline in action. It’s essentially a new Danegeld, one that sees Taxpayer’s money paid out by a morally adrift leftist system that prostrates itself in front of child-raping criminals for fear of being thought of as ‘racist,’ ‘uncaring,’ and ‘impolite.”
Illerkirchberg is a quaint Southern German district, so small that if you drive the county road from the regional city of Ulm towards Memmingen, you might pass through it before you even notice you entered. Just over 5000 people call it home.
A hill above the main village is graced by a rather unimpressive but ancient palace, the Fuggerschloss, with its 1000-year-long history. There’s a discount supermarket. The local football team plays in the district league. This is not the kind of place that should be in the news internationally for violent crime. But Angela Merkel’s reign changed Germany forever.
Under Merkel, persecuted people—brave Afghan Hazara women or Iranian women fighting against tyranny—were left in limbo in countries like Turkey or Pakistan, unable to secure legal visas to Germany or afford a ticket out of hell. Meanwhile, privileged, fighting-age young men with no evident history of political dissent were able to afford to pay traffickers tens of thousands of euros to enter Germany illegally.
Once there, these men received generous public support by posing as ‘politically persecuted people.’ This comes even though many of these young men actually regularly go on holiday back to the countries where their life is supposedly ‘in danger.’
In 2019, the consequences of Merkel’s woke, unselective immigration policies led to tragedy in Illerkirchberg. After a party, a 14-year-old girl was lured to a refugee shelter that the government had opened in the village. There a group of foreign, asylum-seeking young men drugged her and then raped her nine times.
Long-standing journalistic convention and judicial practice in Germany prevents the public naming of offenders in most cases. We know, though, that four male foreign asylum seekers, aged between 17 and 26, were handed prison terms of over two years each after a judge found them guilty. Charges against a fifth male defendant, who was then 15, were dropped as part of a restorative justice agreement.
The victim’s mother later told a newspaper that friends of the convicted rapists were insulting and threatening to murder the victim, forcing her to move away from her home. The mother reportedly suggested that while officials seemed worried about reintegrating the perpetrators, no one seemed to worry about her daughter much. After being released from prison, one of the child rapists, an Afghan citizen, moved back to Illerkirchberg, causing local outrage.
Suddenly, in the lead-up to the election, the government found a will and a way to deport these criminals, apparently with help from the radical Islamist regime in Qatar, which also hosts Hamas terrorists. The government has not announced which concessions, if any, Germany has had to make to the tyrannical, radical Islamist Qatari regime in exchange for this electorally opportune deportation. But this hasn’t stopped left-wing, social-democrat German chancellor Olaf Scholz from claiming that this paltry deportation would be a “clear signal” to criminals.
However, the German authorities, by paying 1000 euros of taxpayers’ money to the child rapist and the 27 others on board the flight, did send another clear signal. This cash was reportedly paid out to them as part of a government program to help deported non-EU citizens reintegrate into their home countries.
A sovereign state should not have to entice or mollycoddle gang rapists with wads of cash. The fact that they do is not a small mistake in the system’s cogs, but a fundamental civilizational crisis. When Anglo-Saxon England paid Danegeld to marauding, uncivilized Vikings 1000 years ago, this did not purchase security for the English. Instead, it invited the Viking raiders to come back for more.
A few years before the First World War, the visionary German-Jewish writer and politician Walter Rathenau warned that the momentary glitter of an Age should not blind us to the dangers of what may come next.
I see shadows rising up, wherever I turn. I see them when I walk in the evenings through the pulsating streets of Berlin, when I look upon the insolence of our wealth gone mad; when I hear the meaninglessness of powerful-sounding words.
His wise, patriotic words failed to awaken sheltered, comfortable German society to the dangers of civilizational decay and blindness. More than a decade later, Rathenau himself paid the ultimate price for his courage when he was assassinated by proto-Nazi terrorists.
Many Germans today do not want to see what is happening with their society. They do not see the shadows rising up yet again. Blinded by Germany’s current prosperity, they do not wish to break with political correctness to consider what future portends for their democratic society.
Instead, they hide behind the meaningless words of myopic leaders like Olaf Scholz, who assure them with powerful platitudes that everything will be all right. Instead of fixing the deep-seated failures at hand, these politicians engage only in electoral cosmetics.
Yet, underneath this ever-crumbling facade of state power, primordial angst has awakened, and a tide of destructive, nihilist anger is rising. What it will sweep away when it is unleashed, no one knows. In the interests of our democracy, we should all hope we will never find out.
Generations of Kurdish and Turkish immigrants worked hard to turn West Germany into an economic superpower in the 1960s and 1970s. They took on the jobs no one else wanted to do. By their sweat, they transformed their adopted country into a modern, multi-ethnic society that reached remarkable levels of prosperity. They asked for no state handouts, only the wages for their long night shifts.
Today, however, the German state, blinded by leftist moral fanaticism, unselectively gives away the prosperity the early immigrants built to those uninvited, law-breaking newcomers who follow no rules and contribute nothing.
This woke break with the principle of the rule of law and meritocracy does not just fill the pockets of gang rapists with wads of cash. It is also, in effect, a campaign donation to those extremists who do not wish for the success of a meritocratic, multi-ethnic, democratic Germany. In this society, people are judged for what they achieve, not for how they look.
The very same government that vociferously claims to fight racism is, in fact, crudely and predictably breeding it with insane, woke policies that demolish public trust in the constitutional order and the principle of equality. It appears that 1000 euros of taxpayers’ money is the reward the German state gives to those who brutalize and violate its children. It is a “signal,” indeed. One of decay and demise.
During his meeting with Indonesian clergy yesterday, Pope Francis warned against “proselytizing,” instead urging them to share the “joy of encountering Christ” with “great respect and fraternal affection” for all.
Hundreds of religious, seminarians, priests, and bishops gathered in Jakarta’s Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption on Wednesday, to hear Pope Francis’ address.
The meeting formed part of the Pope’s busy schedule on the Indonesian leg of his Asian tour, and took place after Francis met earlier in the day with political leaders and Jesuits from the region.
Francis used his address to highlight the three themes of the Indonesia visit, namely “Faith, Fraternity, Compassion,” which is set in the context of the Muslim heavy population of the country (87 percent).
Share ‘joy of Christ’ but don’t proselytize
Having praised the work and example of catechists in handing on the Catholic faith, the Argentine Pontiff issued a stern rebuke against proselytizing.
Indonesian Catholics comprise only 3 percent of the population, though strong and deliberate efforts have been made at the governmental level to ensure peaceful relations between the Muslim majority and the minority Catholic populations.
Francis’ remarks came in relation to the theme of “fraternity,” which he prefaced by explaining that “living out fraternity, then, means welcoming each other, recognizing each other as equal in diversity.”
Drawing on this understanding of fraternity, the Pope described it as “a value dear to the Indonesian Church,” demonstrated through the “openness with which you address the various internal and external realities encountered on a cultural, ethnic, social and religious level.”
But he warned against promoting the Catholic faith in certain styles:
This, brothers and sisters, is important, because proclaiming the Gospel does not mean imposing our faith, placing it in opposition to that of others, or proselytizing, it means giving and sharing the joy of encountering Christ always with great respect and fraternal affection for everyone. [Emphasis added]
I invite you always to keep yourselves open and friendly to all – I like the expression “hand-in-hand” as Father Maxi said – prophets of communion, in a world where the tendency to divide, impose and provoke each other seems to be constantly increasing.
Francis’ remarks differed slightly from his prepared text, with the use of the term “proselytizing” not being originally planned.
For Pope Francis, condemning proselytism has been a recurring motif in his 11-year reign, and he has especially returned to the topic when addressing or visiting groups or countries where Catholicism is a minority.
During his 2016 trip to Georgia he famously condemned it as a “very grave sin,” commenting: “There is a very grave sin against ecumenism: proselytism. We should never proselytize the Orthodox! They are our brothers and sisters, disciples of Jesus Christ.”
In the first year of his papacy speaking with La Repubblica, he said, “Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense … I believe in God, not in a Catholic God, there is no Catholic God, there is God and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation.”
In contrast with Francis’ emphasis, Pope Benedict XVI gave a 2010 address, in which he stated: “The witness of charity, practised here in a special way, is part of the Church’s mission, together with the proclamation of the truth of the Gospel.”
Pope Leo XIII summarized the traditional Catholic teaching on relations with those of other faiths, when he wrote in his 1896 encyclical Satis cognitum that everyone should become a child of God by taking “Christ Jesus as their Brother, and at the same time the Church as their mother.”
The Fourth Lateran Council solemnly defined, in no uncertain terms, that “there is indeed one universal Church of the faithful outside of which no one at all is saved.”
Pope Pius XII reiterated this teaching by saying that Christ “decreed the Church to be the means of salvation, without which no one can enter the kingdom of heavenly glory.” (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (1949).
Francis or John Paul II?
Pope John Paul II’s 1989 speech to the assembled Indonesian clergy offers an interesting contrast to that of his successor.
In his address to the Indonesian Catholic clergy, John Paul paid particular attention to their Catholic work and identity, urging them to continue their mission to build the Church, saying the meeting was “an opportunity for me to encourage you to persevere and to grow in the vocation to which God has called you in the service of the Gospel.”
He quoted from Psalm 96 (95) to call upon the missionary clergy and religious to spread the Faith through the many islands of Indonesia:
“Let the many islands rejoice.” (Psalm 96/95) …
You will find that meaning in bearing witness to the joy of the Resurrection and in giving your life so that even the most distant islands may “rejoice” at hearing the Gospel, of which you are authentic preachers, teachers and witnesses …
Since the building up of the Church is the work of God, we must never cease to pray for vocations and ask others to do the same.
Though a similar length, Francis’ address to the Indonesian clergy did not include the forthright recommendations to spread the Catholic faith that are found in John Paul’s.
A Canadian man in his sixties who abandoned his wife and children to live as a six-year-old girl is currently promoting his memoir about his transition. Stefonknee Wolscht, formerly known as Paul Andrew Wolscht, is a father to seven children and was married to his wife for 23 years before claiming to be transgender in 2009.
According to Wolscht’s website, Holding On by a Thread is described as a “gripping memoir” that recounts the “turbulent journey” of his life. The book was published in June and the hardcover version retails for just over $50 USD on Amazon, but has also been stocked at Barnes & Noble and will be soon available at Waterstones in the United Kingdom.
“Holding On by a Thread is a heartbreaking and eye opening memoir that combines the tragic consequences of transitioning from male to female with the hopelessness of isolation and lost love,” reads the synopsis. “Set in the heart of a major city, the story revolves around the Wolscht family and their struggle with Paul’s transgender issues, as she becomes Stefonknee.”
The description continues: “As Stefonknee grapples with her identity, readers are immersed in her experiences of isolation, lost love, and the relentless struggles she faces in her new life as a woman. Through the eyes of Stefonknee, readers are taken on a journey of discovery, suffering, and unexpected tragedy as she endeavors to create her new life as a woman coping with mental illness, homelessness and incarceration.”
Described as a “beautiful autobiography that captures the human spirit through the eyes of a persecuted transgender individual, the synopsis concludes by adding that the book seeks to expose “systemic shortcomings, inclusivity, and human perseverance.”
In addition to being sold by Amazon and Barnes & Noble, a digital version of the book is also available for purchase at the major Canadian book retailer Indigo and other bookstores across the globe.
Since the book’s release, Wolscht, who used to be a mechanic, has been promoting the book at various bookstores, including a launch party last month hosted by Glad Day Bookshop, the world’s oldest LGBT bookstore located in Toronto, Ontario. On Instagram, Glad Day described the book as “[revolving] around the Wolscht family and their struggle with navigating their loved one through transition.”
But despite the heartwarming description, there are some discrepancies in Wolscht’s story.
Prior to “coming out” as transgender, Wolscht was a father to seven children and had been married to a woman for over two decades. In his memoire, he claims that after telling her his wife that wanted to begin living openly as a “woman” in 2009, she demanded he move out.
Though portraying himself as a victim of transphobia, Reduxx has located old posts Wolscht made to social media in which he admits to threatening his wife and children after announcing his gender transition.
In a post made to sexual fetish platform FetLife, Wolscht says that in 2009, a warrant was issued for his arrest in connection to the threats. Wolscht explains he was ultimately detained by York Regional Police on seven charges following a report being filed by his wife.
“I was charged with uttering threats because, in a moment of despair and frustration, I wrote a note to my wife that stated, should she separate me from my children and not play fair, I would fight her for everything and burn down our house.”
Despite this admission, Wolscht reasserts that he believed he was being discriminated against for being transgender. He adds that he believes his wife and York police were “teaming up” and conspiring to prevent him from accessing his children, and that the Newmarket Court for Family and Criminal Hearings forbade him from contacting his former wife and children.
Though Wolscht claims to be a victim, Reduxx has viewed a public comment made on Facebook by one of his seven children in which she details the family’s side of the story and reveals that Wolscht had attempted to force his children to participate in his transvestism.
“I was 13 when you left,” the girl says. “There were days that if I didn’t want to paint your nails, you threatened to stop helping me with homework. You say that you couldn’t handle the fact that we filed a restraining order. People need to know you can’t get a restraining order for being of a different mindset. You were a physical threat to mom and the day you left, more than one of your children thought you were going to come back to harm us.”
The year after he left his family, Wolscht began surgically and medically transitioning. He moved to Toronto where he lost his job as a mechanic and lived in homeless shelters. He has said that he was housed with five women during this period.
After two years of living in shelters, he was able to secure an apartment, and, in 2012, he was “adopted” by an elderly couple he met on FetLife. The trio began participating in “play therapy,” where he would take on the persona of a 6-year-old girl during their BDSM activities.
“I have a mommy and a daddy – an adopted mommy and daddy – who are totally comfortable with me being a little girl. And their children and grandchildren are totally supportive,” he said at the time, adding that he used to identify as an eight year old girl but was asked by his “sibling” to be six so he could be the younger “child” in the home.
In 2015, Wolscht made international headlines after appearing in a documentary produced by Xtra Magazine called The Trans Project, where he discussed his transition and age regression. Following the release of the documentary, Wolscht briefly went “missing,” with Toronto Police launching an investigation into his whereabouts due to concerns he was in danger.
“People have threatened to kill me, shoot me, cut my head off, throw me in the oven,” he claimed. “[They said] that I should kill myself. There’s hundreds of different messages. The worst ones [threaten] to mutilate me,” he said.
Since the documentary’s release, Wolscht has become a vocal trans activist, and frequently attends pride parades and LGBT events in Ontario. Wolscht marched at this year’s Toronto Pride Parade where he carried the flag of Uganda in support of “LGBTQS2I refugees.”
Disturbingly, Wolscht has claimed that he is “welcomed into classrooms to educate children on gender and sexuality.”
In an exchange on X in which one user expressed criticism of Wolscht’s sexual proclivities, he replied: “We have a long way to go. Perhaps I’ll teach a TERFs kid soon.”
Wolscht has previously stated that the thought of being a woman or pregnant caused him to become aroused. During a podcast, he told the hosts he had developed an erection from the thought of being a “girl.”
Wolscht is a member of 200 online communities on FetLife. Among them are multiple groups for the so-called Adult Baby Diaper Lover (ABDL) community. Others are dedicated to age regression, BDSM, crossdressing, sissification, lactation fetishism, and castration pornography.
“I went through a rough time for a while but now I have a loving Daddy who keeps me safe as a femme little girl 24/7, I am where I belong (a girl who becomes a little girl when I need to be),” reads Wolscht’s fetish account profile.
“I really am trying to be a good little six year old girl… but it is very hard sometimes, Daddy is okay with that. We are very happy and we are teaching the world what a Queer Femme Girlie Girl really is. If you wish to meet and play with us, be prepared to immerse yourself into our happy kinky poly family.”
The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) is set to win national elections this month, according to polling which shows them with a strong lead approximately three weeks before voters cast their ballots. The party, known for its anti-immigration, pro-peace, and socialistic blend of politics, has been leading in the polls since 2022.
According to a poll from the Lazarsfeld Society on behalf of oe24, the party has 27 percent of the vote, with the center-right ÖVP in second place with 23 percent. National elections will be held on Sept. 29.
In theory, the two parties, which have held a coalition government in the past, would have enough votes to form a government, but bad blood between the two may prevent such a coalition.
For one, the ÖVP famously broke up their previous coalition after the FPÖ was caught up in the Ibiza scandal. However since then, the FPÖ has made the ÖVP one of their top political targets, noting the party is in an alliance with the Greens, has overseen a huge surge in illegal migration, and has taken on a more pro-war stance than the FPÖ finds acceptable. Furthermore, the ÖVP would no longer be in a coalition where the FPÖ is the junior partner. In fact, FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl would potentially be chancellor if such a coalition were to come to pass. So far, the ÖVP has ruled out such a coalition.
The poll also shows the SPÖ is at 20 percent, the Neos are at 12 percent, and the Greens are at 8 percent. The communist KPÖ is at 3 percent and the Beer Party is at 4 percent. Both parties must secure a minimum of 4 percent in order to gain seats in parliament.
The ÖVP has seen the steepest drop in support, winning 37 percent of the vote in the last election, which saw the FPÖ only receive 16 percent.