(29 Sep 2024)
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Vienna – 29 September 2024
1. NEOS (New Austria and Liberal Forum) party leader Beate Meinl-Reisinger talking to reporters, pan right to camera operators
2. SOUNDBITE (German) Beate Meinl-Reisinger, NEOS party leader:
“We gained a lot. There are two parties which won tonight – the FPO (Freedom Party of Austria) and us. And what I think is especially clear is that the Austrians want change urgently. Throughout the last couple months we touched some hot potatoes – we said we need reforms in Austria, but positive reforms. Pro-European reforms, not fortress-fantasies, especially when it comes to the economy. And we are staying true to our word. We are ready and without us nothing will change.”
3. Camera operators
4. SOUNDBITE (German) Beate Meinl-Reisinger, NEOS party leader:
“What do you mean? I am still of the opinion that the FPO in government is not good for us. That’s what it’s like in a democracy – you need a majority. By itself the Freedom Party has no majority. So the question is which kind of solutions we are going to get at the negotiation table. And we will certainly demand reforms. That is very clear.”
5. Meinl-Reisinger talking to reporters
STORYLINE:
Austrian NEOS party leader Beate Meinl-Reisinger was celebratory on Sunday evening, after the country’s election predictions were announced.
“We gained a lot. There are two parties which won tonight – the FPO and us," said Meinl-Reisinger. "What I think is especially clear is that the Austrians want change urgently."
The Freedom Party was headed for the first far-right win in a national parliamentary election in post-World War II Austria on Sunday, finishing ahead of the governing conservatives after tapping into voters’ anxieties about immigration, inflation, Ukraine and other issues, a projection showed. But its chances of governing were unclear.
A projection for ORF public television, based on counting of about two-thirds of the votes, put support for the Freedom Party at 29.1% and Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s Austrian People’s Party at 26.3%. The centre-left Social Democrats were in third place with 21%. The outgoing government — a coalition of Nehammer’s party and the environmentalist Greens — lost its majority in the lower house of parliament.
Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister and longtime campaign strategist who has led the Freedom Party since 2021, wants to be chancellor.
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