A grand coalition for Austria?

Boris Jausovec comments on the success of the right-wing populist parties in yesterday's general elections in Austria. "The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) used nationalist and chauvinist slogans and demands – sometimes against each other – to win votes in the election campaign. They both promised to remove 300,000 foreigners immediately from the country and to rid Europe of Islam and Carinthia of the Slovenian language. Together, the two parties managed to garner 15 percent of the vote. Not all too long ago, results like these would have set off alarm bells across Europe. Nowadays, unfortunately, it's quite normal."

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