Pursuits
Vienna Socialist May Fall to Refugee Crisis in Landmark Poll
- Social Democratic rule at risk for first time since 1945
- Voters frustrated by wage stagnation, rent hikes, immigration
Michael Haeupl’s Social Democrats are seeing their grip on Austria’s capital threatened for the first time since World War II as people already frustrated by rising rents and stagnant wages turn to the anti-immigrant Freedom Party to stop a sudden influx of refugees.
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Vienna’s mayor may be about to become the first politician in Europe toppled by the refugee crisis that is straining relations and upsetting voters from Britain to the Balkans.
Michael Haeupl’s Social Democrats are seeing their grip on Austria’s capital threatened for the first time since World War II as people already frustrated by rising rents and stagnant wages turn to the anti-immigrant Freedom Party to stop a sudden influx of refugees.