Animal surveys in ÖVP affair in Austria

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SThe Austrian public recently noted with amazement that between the Viennese Ballhausplatz, where the Federal Chancellor resides, and the Parliament on the ring road, fauna frolic in a variety that is only surpassed in the Schönbrunn Zoo. Badger and wild boar, deer and bull, monkey and rattlesnake and two species of peacock can be found there.

Or more precisely, they were four years ago. In 2017, the “Research Affairs” institute of opinion researcher Sabine Beinschab conducted an investigation into which creatures the Austrians associated with which of their top politicians at the time.

Sebastian Kurz, who was preparing that year to first conquer the party leadership of the Christian Democratic ÖVP and then also the Federal Chancellery, appeared to people as a dolphin or squirrel if they liked to look at him favorably, or as a peacock.

Christian Kern, his social democratic previous tenant at Ballhausplatz, was also a peacock, but for his fans a stag. The rattlesnake was Heinz-Christian Strache, the FPÖ leader, who at the time in Ibiza became the involuntary protagonist of a video that would only become known two years later, but then with all the greater aplomb.

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