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ARCHIVE: Wels, Austria – 7 September 2024
1. Wide of crowd chanting “Herbert”
2. FPÖ (Freedom Party of Austria) leader Herbert Kickl waving to supporters
3. Supporters clapping hands
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Vienna – 8 January 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (German) Peter Hajek, political scientist:
++SOUNDBITE PARTLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 1-3++
“Since the failed negotiations between the ÖVP, SPÖ and Neos, Austria currently finds itself in a new situation, but this is actually a completely normal constitutional process.”
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ARCHIVE: Vienna – 29 September 2024
5. Kickl walking up to stage after Austrian election success
6. Kick speaking
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Vienna – 8 January 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (German) Peter Hajek, political scientist:
++SOUNDBITE PARTLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 5-6++
“What is new about this situation is that the Freedom Party, a right-wing populist grouping, now has the opportunity for the first time to provide the Federal Chancellor in Austria, provided that these new negotiations with the Christian Democrats end favorably.”
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Vienna – 29 September 2024
8. Wide of Kickl on stage
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Vienna – 8 January 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (German) Peter Hajek, political scientist:
++SOUNDBITE ENTIRELY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 8 AND 10++
“He needs a symbolic beacon, a symbolic image. That will certainly be in the migration and integration issue.”
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Vienna – 29 September 2024
10. Close of Kickl speaking
STORYLINE:
A party that advocates an end to economic sanctions against Russia and has called for the “re-migration of uninvited foreigners” could soon give Austria its first government led by the far right since World War II.
The Freedom Party, led by Herbert Kickl, won Austria’s parliamentary election in September.
It took 28.8% of the vote and beat outgoing Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s conservative Austrian People’s Party into second place.
After attempts to form a government without the Freedom Party collapsed in recent days, President Alexander Van der Bellen called in Kickl – a sharp-tongued provocateur who last year mocked the now 80-year-old president as “a mummy” and “senile” – for talks that led to Monday’s offer for the Freedom Party to try to form a new government.
The 56-year-old Kickl is known for overstepping accepted boundaries and shocking the political establishment.
A former speechwriter for late former far-right leader Jörg Haider and a longtime campaign strategist who coined catchy and provocative anti-immigration slogans, Kickl was interior minister from 2017 to 2019 when the Freedom Party was a junior partner in a coalition government under conservative then-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
He became the Freedom Party leader in June 2021.
Kickl has criticized “elites” in Brussels and called for some powers to be brought back from the European Union to Austria.
The Freedom Party was founded in 1956 by former Nazis and over the decades, has become an established political force in Austria.
It has led provincial governments and served as a junior partner in national governments but never led a national administration until now.
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