(27 Sep 2024)
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Vienna, Austria – 27 September 2024
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1. Wide of FPO party chairman Herbert Kickl arriving on stage, waving
2. Mid of Kickl waving to supporters
3. W ide of supporters with Austrian flags and stage
4. SOUNDBITE (German) Herbert Kickl, FPO party chairman:
“It is not acceptable that we have to protect our people from the people who are coming here looking for protection. Then something isn’t right with the system anymore. And that’s why we finally need ‘remigration’. I don’t even know why this word is supposed to be so evil.”
5. Wide of Kickl on stage
6. SOUNDBITE (German) Herbert Kickl, FPO party chairman:
“I have a very, very simple principle in politics. And that is Austria first. Two words: Austria first. Dear friends, if you want to achieve something great you have to constrain yourself. I don’t have the goal to save the entire world – I don’t even want that.”
7. Wide of crowd chanting “Herbert”
8. SOUNDBITE (German) Herbert Kickl, FPO party chairman:
“The late (Mikhail) Gorbachev knew that ‘Those who are late will be punished by life itself’. And this punishment mission takes place in Austria on Sunday, dear friends!”
9. Wide of Saint Stephens Cathedral, pan down to stage
10. Mid of Kickl and party members waving Austrian flags
11. Wide of confetti bombs exploding on stage
STORYLINE:
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party could win a national election for the first time when Austria votes on Sunday, tapping into voters’ anxieties about immigration, inflation and Ukraine.
The FPO’s positive polling follows recent gains for the hard right elsewhere in Europe.
On Friday the FPO held their last campaign event before the election.
Speaking in front of Saint Stephen’s cathedral in the centre of Vienna, party leader Herbert Kickl demanded a large scale ‘remigration’ of illegals.
“It is not acceptable that we have to protect our people from the people, who are coming here looking for protection. Then something isn’t right with the system anymore. And that’s why we finally need remigration. I don’t even know why this word is supposed to be so evil,” Kickl said to thousands of cheering supporters.
He has promoted an “Austria first” strategy in his politics saying his aim wasn’t to “save the entire world”.
Kickl, a former interior minister and longtime campaign strategist who has led the Freedom Party since 2021, wants to become Austria’s new chancellor.
But to achieve that, he would need a coalition partner to command a majority in the lower house of parliament.
And a win isn’t certain, with recent polls pointing to a close race.
They have put support for the Freedom Party at 27%, with the conservative Austrian People’s Party of Chancellor Karl Nehammer on 25% and the center-left Social Democrats on 21%.
Austrians will vote for a new parliament on Sunday, September 29.
AP video shot by Philipp Jenne
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