(4 Feb 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vienna, Austria – 4 February 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Mid of people walking past Austrian Parliament building
2. Wide of people marching
3. Wide of crowd, building being lit with flashlights
4. Mid of chancellery building
5. Mid of protesters holding up signs
6. Mid of sign showing Russian President Vladimir Putin puppeteering Freedom Party leader Herbert Kickl reading (German) “Do you want that?”
7. SOUNDBITE (German) Karin Wilflingseder, protest organizer:
"It can’t be that the successor party of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers’ Party) is a member of the next government – with a chancellor Kickl at that. This is really disgusting, that the People’s Party is seriously considering this for a bit more profit. I think we must take to the streets now and defend democracy.”
8. Mid of drummers
9. Close of musicians
10. Mid of drummers
11. Mid of man holding up sign
12. SOUNDBITE (German) Norbert Slabinger, 64, retired teacher:
“His friendliness towards Russia, his criticism of the EU. There is a possibility that once he is chancellor, he could block everything in the EU council. Together with (Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor) Orban, (Slovakian Prime Minister, Robert) Fico and the others he could simply block everything, agitate and destroy the EU.”
13. Protesters holding up signs reading (German) “I am afraid” and “not again!”
14. SOUNDBITE (German) Doris Pointinger, protester:
“We would take a step backwards, we could fall back into a time which no one needs and no one wants anymore – in all areas of society, no matter whether it concerns women’s rights, just in all areas. This just cannot be, this is pure regression.”
15. Wide of protesters
16. Wide of Imperial Palace, protesters in foreground
17. Wide of people marching
STORYLINE:
Tens of thousands of people in Austria took to the streets of the capital on Tuesday to protest against the possible participation of the country’s right-wing Freedom Party in a government coalition.
Around 30,000 protesters took part in the demonstration in Vienna, using torches to light up the Austrian Chancellery before marching past parliament waving sign and banners aloft denouncing the Freedom Party at its leader Herbert Kickl.
"It can’t be that the successor party of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers’ Party) is a member of the next government – with a chancellor Kickl at that,” protest organizer Karin Wilflingseder said.
Others like retired teacher Norbert Slabinger were worried about Kickl’s friendliness towards Russia and his criticism of the European Union.
“There is a possibility that once he is Chancellor he could block everything in the EU council," he said.
The protest took place on the anniversary of the first mass protests against the Freedom Party 25 years ago, when the FPO first formed a government with the conservative People’s party.
Currently the two parties are again in coalition talks to form a government after a three-way coalition between the Social Democrats, the People’s Party and the pro-business Neos Party failed late last year.
AP video by Philipp Jenne
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