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2024 – being “the election year” – is a topical moment for many democracies around the world. Austrian citizens, as well as Romanians, Belgians, Czechs, Portuguese, Lithuanians, Croatians, Slovakians, and Finnish, will vote twice, both for European and for national elections. 2024 might also (and again!) be the year of a “sharp right turn” in many European countries and Austria is no exception, considering the constant growth of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, also “FPÖ”), at the expense of the country’s two main centrist and traditionally dominant parties, the center-right Austrian People’s Party (Österreichische Volkspartei, hereinafter also “ÖVP”) and the center-left Social Democratic Party of Austria (Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs, also “SPÖ”), and the other party in the ÖVP-Grüne coalition, the Greens… (continues)
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