Bäh! - Yuck!
Austrian Chancellor Kurz's and Vice-Chancellor Strache's mugs during yesterday' demonstration against the so-called Akademikerball ("Graduates Ball") in the Hofburg in Vienna. This ball is given every year by a union of right-wing and far right fraternities, the official organizer being the FPÖ, which is a government party now.
There have been yearly demonstrations against this far-right event for many years. But Strache's far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) isn't an opposition party anymore. It's a government party now, and the senior coalition partner, Austrian People's Party, has pursued right-wing populist policies, which resemble FPÖ's policies very much, since Sebastian Kurz has become chairman. So this demonstration was also a demonstration against Austria's current government.
Bäh! - Yuck!
Austrian Chancellor Kurz's and Vice-Chancellor Strache's mugs during yesterday' demonstration against the so-called Akademikerball ("Graduates Ball") in the Hofburg in Vienna. This ball is given every year by a union of right-wing and far right fraternities, the official organizer being the FPÖ, which is a government party now.
There have been yearly demonstrations against this far-right event for many years. But Strache's far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) isn't an opposition party anymore. It's a government party now, and the senior coalition partner, Austrian People's Party, has pursued right-wing populist policies, which resemble FPÖ's policies very much, since Sebastian Kurz has become chairman. So this demonstration was also a demonstration against Austria's current government.