Vote for Vienna's mayor! Because I can't!

[Zanza]

I would usually vote for the guy with the beer but as I have the misfortune to know he is an asshole, I went with the last woman.

[celedhring]

I would usually vote for the guy with the beer but as I have the misfortune to know he is an asshole, I went with the last woman.

Yeah, he looks a bit of a tosser. I hope he's FPÖ or something idiotic like that.

[Martinus]

Voted the last chick, on account of "least likely to be a nazi". She looks like a "bruja" so that's a plus as well - Vienna could use some interesting make-over.

[Eddie Teach]

She looks like a "bruja" so that's a plus as well - Vienna could use some interesting make-over.

So could Delaware.

[Zanza]

I would usually vote for the guy with the beer but as I have the misfortune to know he is an asshole, I went with the last woman.

Yeah, he looks a bit of a tosser. I hope he's FPÖ or something idiotic like that.

If I am right that's Strache, Führer of the FPÖ.

[Ancient Demon]

The beer man is a Nazi, isn't he? Somehow I'm getting that vibe from him, I think I've seen him before.

[Ancient Demon]

If I am right that's Strache, Führer of the FPÖ.

That would explain it. You pre-empted my previous post.

[Eddie Teach]

He kinda looks like the dude who beats up homeless people for fun on Mr Robot.

[Admiral Yi]

He looks like a beer drinking ferret.

Is the dude posing in front of the beer taps a Nazi too?

[Ideologue]

Voted the last chick, on account of "least likely to be a nazi". She looks like a "bruja" so that's a plus as well - Vienna could use some interesting make-over.

A female shaman from an indigenous Mexican tribe?

I voted for Dennis Hopper.

[Syt]

From top to bottom:

- Turgay Taskiran from Gemeinsam für Wien (together for Vienna), a predominantly Turkish immigrant list
- Manfred Juraczka (ÖVP, comparable to Germany's CDU)
- HC Strache (FPÖ - right wing populist)
- Beate Meinl-Reisinger from NEOS (small government, pro-deregulation libertarians)
- Juliana ,,Juli" Okropiridse from Wien ANDAS, a joint list of Communist, Pirates, former Green party etc
- Manfred Häupl (SPÖ - social democrats and current mayor)
- Heinz Pollischansky from WWW - Wir Wollen Wahlfreiheit (We Want Freedom of Choice), a list founded by pub and restaurant owners who are against the 2018 smoking ban
- Maria Vassilakou (Greens, currently in coalition with SPÖ in Vienna and #2 behind Häupl)

Additionally, there's some parties that only compete in one or a few districts, but not all of Vienna, e.g.:
- EU-Austrittspartei (Party for Leaving the EU), competing in all districts except the 1st
- Männerpartei (21st and 22nd districts, for "true equality of the genders")
- Freie Demokraten (somewhere between NEOS and FPÖ)
- RKOB - Equal Rights for Muslims
- Socialist Leftist Party

The WWW is the only small group that didn't go through the signature collection process normally required for registering for the election but instead secured (some would say: bought) 5 support signatures from members of federal parliament that are part of Team Stronach (Frank Stronach, an Austrian born Canadian billionaire, bought created his own party for the last federal elections ... it was a weird, comical, sad process, and the group has all but fallen apart by now, in large because Stronach's guidance has been contradictory, erratic and his interviews were PR nightmares).

Meanwhile, the FPÖ is calling for an October 'Revolution' to break 50+ years of SPÖ government.



FPÖ's most recent coup is getting Ursual Stenzel to join them. She has been with ÖVP and is the district mayor of the Inner City. She's the embodiment of the 1950s/60s faux-aristocratic bourgeoisie. She wanted to bar political demonstrations from the Ringstraße, ban night traffic in the Inner City, remove all beggars/street musicians from the Inner City (and replace them with music academy students), she introduced diapers for the horses pulling the famous carriages, and wanted to introduce legislation that was aimed at getting backpacking tourists out of her part of town (among many other things). The ÖVP didn't want her for another round, so she left the party and will ride on the FPÖ list instead, saying that she hasn't changed but that the ÖVP has become too liberal. People are not sure if this move will help/hinder her or the FPÖ.

Ursula Stenzel:


Current Gallup (5th September) poll sees SPÖ at 34%, FPÖ at 32%, Greens at 13%, ÖVP at 11%, NEOS at 6%, other at 4. That would make a continuation of the current coalition possible, though it might be a minority government tolerated by NEOS. While ÖVP/FPÖ might join up, I doubt NEOS would go with an FPÖ coalition. FPÖ has declared they'd be willing to work with SPÖ, which the SPÖ has already rejected.

[Duque de Bragança]

Strache for even more balkan techno pop to grab South Slavic votes! Will be difficult to please both Serbs and Croats but he can pull it.

[spoiler]Only Syt will understand the first part[/spoiler]

[The Larch]

Diapers for horses? 

[dps]

Diapers for horses? 

She sounds like a nutcase, but her positions don't sound particularly populist to me.

[celedhring]

I would usually vote for the guy with the beer but as I have the misfortune to know he is an asshole, I went with the last woman.

Yeah, he looks a bit of a tosser. I hope he's FPÖ or something idiotic like that.

If I am right that's Strache, Führer of the FPÖ.

Yeah, somehow that pic got my nazi sense tingling.