With this, the Austrians also sent a message to the president of the poison-green republic, who should be invited to form a government.

"The patriotic FPÖ, Hungary's great friend, won the elections in Styria - this has never happened before. The Austrians also sent a message to the poison-green president of the republic, who should be invited to form a government - after the recent federal elections were won "in vain" by the right wing, they will not be allowed near power," Miklós Szánthó, director general of the Center for Fundamental Rights, wrote in his Facebook post on Sunday evening regarding that

the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) won the Styrian provincial elections held on Sunday;

according to the preliminary results, the right-wing political party won 34.8 percent of the votes.

In second place is Chancellor Karl Nehammer's conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) with 26.8 percent of the vote. The Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) can claim 21.4 percent of the votes. The Greens also entered the provincial parliament (6.2 percent), while the liberal NEOS (New Austria and Liberal Forum) got 5.9 percent and the Austrian Communist Party got 4.4 percent.

The previous coalition of the ÖVP and SPÖ lost its majority in the provincial legislature with this result.

Compared to the 2019 provincial elections, the FPÖ doubled its support by 17.3 percentage points, while the ÖVP and the SPÖ achieved their worst election results so far in Styria.

Herbert Kickl, the president of the Austrian Freedom Party, spoke on social media about a historic day in view of his party's victory in Styria. At the same time, he assessed the result as the fact that voters clearly reject the union of ÖVP, SPÖ and NEOS at the federal level, after the three parties started coalition negotiations with each other at the beginning of the week.

Kickl also demanded the immediate resignation of Karl Nehammer, saying that anything else would be "absurd".

Christian Stocker, secretary general of the ÖVP, called the results painful.

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Cover photo: Herbert Kickl, leader of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ)
Source: MTI/EPA/Daniel Novotny