2023-08-11 17:47:56
The extreme right again dominates the political life of the republic of the Alps, four years after a major scandal of collusion with Russian business circles. But it is not the only one to come back in force: the Austrian Communist Party (KPÖ) is also on the rise. So much so that its detractors denounce the influence of what the journalist Paul Lendvai names in The standard and “romantic-leftist blindness”.
“The KPÖ has often been blamed for the negative balance sheet of the entire communist movement”, remember Delivery man. However, the party won in September 2021 the municipal elections of Graz, now nicknamed “Leningraz”. And, last April, he succeeded, thanks to an alliance with former Greens excluded from their party, to integrate the regional Parliament of the Land of Salzburg.
In Salzburg, the capital of the Land, in this regional election, the Communists did even better: in the city, they came in second place, just behind the traditional right of the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), which put “under the
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