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...Austrian far-right politician Joerg Haider, who was killed in a car crash in his home province of Carinthia very early on Saturday morning, was his native country's best-known person, his sharp and perpetually tanned features ubiquitous on television and magazines. He was also Austria's most polarizing figure, with an impact far beyond that country's borders. During a long and checkered career, Haider stood out from the crowd of post-war Austrian politicians with his good looks, athletic lifestyle and devilish talent for provocation. But he was also a populist and demagogue who played...
...Austria Right Foot Forward The moderate voices that have dominated Austrian politics since the end of World War II were quieted on Sept. 28. The country's two far-right parties, campaigning on anti-E.U. and anti-immigration platforms, made unprecedented gains in the national parliamentary elections, taking almost 30% of the vote. Both the Freedom Party and the Alliance for the Future of Austria have been tainted by accusations of neo-Nazism and xenophobia. Analysts, however, credit their success less to a tilt toward extremism than to widespread frustration among Austrians with the ruling moderate parties. The shaky...
...Most Austrian awoke with a shock on Monday when they learned that two anti-immigrant, anti-E.U. parties together won an unprecedented 29% of the vote in Sept. 28 elections, bringing the far right almost even with the mainstream Social Democratic Party in the Austrian Parliament. The Freedom Party and the breakaway Alliance for the Future of Austria - led by former Freedom Party leader Jörg Haider - managed to double the far right's share of the vote in the two years since the last elections...
...growing clout of the two parties raises questions about the future direction of Austrian policy. Already the country has turned sharply against an E.U. constitution; even the Social Democrats have said that no new document would be approved without a popular referendum, which would almost certainly fail. The number of immigrants entering Austria is small compared to that of Spain and some other E.U. countries. But Strache nevertheless got traction with his calls for curbs on "criminal immigrants," including implanting electronic chips in anyone convicted of a crime to allow the authorities to monitor their movements...
...photos from the Austrian house of horrors story here...