--- Election in Austria

[Dill]

(12-07-2016, 11:13 AM)hollodero Wrote: Back to "die Presse" then :) Think I mentioned it once, our president is not very much like yours. (First off, he's not an ars... sorry... :) ) Our general elections will take place in 2 years tops, and new parliament then forms the new government (right now we keep being stuck with the old one, which will be beloved in three years). The president can not do much except - indeed - denying them and cause a constitutional crisis.

Actually, I think your government is simpler now than under the Hapsburgs when you had dual parliaments with Hungary and all the translation problems.  You had a final arbiter, though. I guess that was simpler.

I see van der Bellen is trying to heal the rift, calling everyone to come out of the "trenches" and such, but the reader commentaries in Die Presse sound a lot like the American response to Trump, with people saying he's not my president and others telling them to get over it now.

Hofer and Strache are preparing for the next vote, which includes repackaging the party to look less extreme outside Austria. Hofer says he's got an invitation from Washington. Is he just talking I wonder? I see that many of you are embarrassed by these guys--like we are by our president elect. But at least Hofer is not Austria's face to the world--yet.

What is going on in the world that similar sorts of conflict seem to appear spontaneously in different places? US, UK, Austria--where else now are Trump-style insurgencies emerging?