The first opinion research since this week’s agreement among Vienna’s parties to hold an October General Election shows an enormous movement in favour of Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz’s People’s Party (OVP). Described by one commissioning newspaper as an ‘earthquake’, the twin polls today from Unique Research and Research Affairs show 10 and 13 point gains […]
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Austria: Leader speculation won’t go away
Oesterreich newspaper published its fortnightly national poll from Research Affairs this weekend, with very little headline change reported among the parties. The populist Freedom Party (FPO) continues to top the list, unchanged on 33 per cent of voting intentions. While the Social Democrats (SPO) and conservative People’s Party (OVP) trade a point, all the changes […]
Kurz looms over Austrian poll calm
March’s mid-month polls from the country’s two main research organisations are out, with little movement among the parties. However the prospect of a transformational leadership change for the third-placed People’s Party (OVP) still provides intriguing interest. In the twice-monthly Research Affairs poll for the Oesterreich newspaper, released yesterday, there is scarely a whisper of movement, […]
Austria: Strache commands his party, voters prefer Hofer
Today’s fortnightly poll from Research Affairs coincides with the party conference of the populist Freedom Party (FPO), Austria’s leading force in voting intentions with all pollsters. Heinz-Christian Strache, who has headed the FPO since 2005, was triumphantly re-elected in Klagenfurt with 98.7 per cent support. But according to the poll, published in the […]
Austria: SPO continues to narrow gap with FPO
New polling in Austria shows that Social Democrat Chancellor Christian Kern (SPO) is narrowing the gap on the populist Freedom Party (FPO) – perhaps an early sign that last month’s tough package of reforms on immigration and integration is beginning to bear political fruit. Measures agreed by the SPO and OVP coalition government in response […]