(29 Sep 2024)
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Purkersdorf, Austria – 29 September 2024
1. Various of Freedom Party (FPO) leader Herbert Kickl arriving to vote at polling station
2. Wide tracking of Kickl heading into polling station
3. SOUNDBITE (German) Herbert Kickl, Freedom Party (FPO) leader:
"Well, it is the question that is being decided today: should everything continue as before or should there be five good years for Austria in the future? And I think the five good years have the upper hand, so to speak, and simply a good feeling. And I think the mood is right and the mood will be right."
4. Wide of Kickl speaking to media
5. SOUNDBITE (German) Herbert Kickl, Freedom Party (FPO) leader:
"I will take note of the will of the voters, whatever the outcome is. Now the voters have their say again. They have had to wait for five years and now they can give their response to everything that has happened and express their hopes. Then we’ll see what comes out and then we’ll analyze things."
6. Mid of sign
7. SOUNDBITE (German) Herbert Kickl, Freedom Party (FPO) leader:
"If you want to talk about disarmament of words and things like that, then I would invite you to talk to four parties who may have a problem taking note of a democratic outcome."
8. Wide tracking of Kickl leaving
STORYLINE:
The leader of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPO) Herbert Kickl voted on Sunday in a national election that his party is hoping to win for the first time.
Kickl told reporters outside the polling station that he believes the "mood is right" for a change in government, adding that voters are wanting "five good years" for Austria.
He said he would "take note of the will of the voters", whatever the outcome.
Kickl also responded to questions about his rhetoric by accusing other parties of having "a problem taking note of a democratic outcome."
The FPO has tapped into anxieties about immigration, inflation, Ukraine and other concerns following recent gains for the hard right elsewhere in Europe.
Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister and longtime campaign strategist who has led the Freedom Party since 2021, wants to become Austria’s new chancellor. He has used the term “Volkskanzler,” or chancellor of the people, which was used by the Nazis to describe Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. Kickl has rejected the comparison.
But to become Austria’s new leader, he would need a coalition partner to command a majority in the lower house of parliament — and rivals have said they won’t work under Kickl.
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%.
More than 6.3 million people aged 16 and over are eligible to vote for the new parliament in Austria, a European Union member that has a policy of military neutrality.
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