FPÖ leader Kickl could become chancellor: writer Elias Hirschl despairs

To be honest, I didn’t think it would happen so quickly. On the other hand, something happens here all the time anyway, so it’s not too surprising. The fact that Austria is now tilting to the right on Epiphany seems somehow appropriate to me. Star singers at the door sing the good news: The red wallpaper door in the Vienna Hofburg has opened again. Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen came out and announced the end of the world. Karl Nehammer, the Chancellor, who always so helpfully and warmly recommended hamburgers for 1.40 euros to low-income earners to combat hunger and who used alcohol or psychotropic drugs to combat the inflation crisis, is resigning. And that after just four episodes of “Karl, how are you” – the authentic and people-oriented podcast with your favorite current Chancellor. And his successor now suddenly wants to talk to Herbert Kickl from the right-wing FPÖ. The firewall that was never there has fallen. Kickl is tasked with forming a government. Now it’s fixed.