Austrian parliamentary elections: Many fake election posters have appeared

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2024-09-13 07:30:00

Vienna. The most immediately noticeable thing is that the fake posters look like the real thing and look like they are hanging in poster windows. “It’s done very professionally. Since the party logos are reproduced quite realistically, you almost feel like they were commissioned by a party themselves,” says Dieter Weber, Managing Director of the advertising company.

ÖVP, FPÖ, NEOS were influential

A so-called ÖVP poster reads: “We are still doing fascism ourselves” – next to him is Karl Nehammer, looking into the eyes of Engelbert Dollfuß. Or with the FPÖ logo and the slogan “One people, one chancellor”: Herbert Kickl looks at a crowd of people. Or: “Work makes you rich … experience” with the NEOS logo.

“We have regular City Lights at bus stops, from commercials and also from commissioning parties, these are professionally designed and replaced with fake posters. The initial feedback was that there was no real harm,” says Weber.

Weber notes that this is the first time such fake election posters have been seen in Graz, and in Vienna this is already known: recently, a large number of timetable windows have been secretly opened and there are fake election posters with fake KPÖ themes completed. placed.

“All armies are on alert”

All of Ankunder’s current team took action to remove the fake election posters as quickly as possible, and Weber continues: “We’re in the process of reporting everything to the police right now. “We are in contact with state security units and almost all of our units are on high alert.”

Graffiti painted on election posters: Various reports

Several cases of vandalism of election posters have been reported in Vorarlberg this year and the police are investigating unidentified people. Many criminal complaints were made.

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