New fun in the election campaign: List T.r.u.m.p. stir up Vienna!

New fun in the election campaign: List T.r.u.m.p. stir up Vienna!

Things are boiling in Vienna! Almost 30 new mini-parties are fighting for approval for the upcoming election on April 27th. Particularly in focus: the newly founded T.r.u.m.p. list, which is trying to attract votes with a wink and the motto “Make Vienna great again”. Despite the humorous approach, the initiators emphasize that they have no connection to US President Donald Trump or his politics krone.at reported. The list plans to create more social housing and use three percent of Vienna's budget for its own city police force.

Hurdles to candidacy

The threshold for approval is low: only 50 signatures are required to run in the district, and only 1,800 must be collected for a candidacy for local council. Supporter forms are available at the district offices. Ex-Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache plans to consider legal action against the new list because he finds the choice of name problematic. In order to forestall a lawsuit by Trump, unusual dots were placed between the letters, which is intended to minimize the direct risk of confusion.

A total of 1.4 million eligible voters are available to voters in Vienna, of which 264,781 EU citizens can also take part in the district council elections. The electoral roll will remain open for corrections until February 27th, while absentee ballots can be requested until April 23rd. Interesting data on Austria's political landscape is provided by the party law, which states that there are no special requirements for the establishment of parties as long as they do not violate the prohibition law. Loud wikipedia.org Over 1,300 parties are registered in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, which underlines the colorful diversity of the country's political landscape.