Austria holds legislative elections this Sunday and the EU institutions are once again holding their breath. The far-right FPÖ party is leading the polls and has a chance of winning elections in the Alpine republic for the first time since 1945, after the end of the Second World War.
This will be a new political scenario in a country where coalitions with extreme right-wing groups, whether by the conservative group of the ÖVP or the social democratic group of the SPÖ, will no longer be the taboo of the past decades. However, until now the FPÖ has always acted as a junior partner. With a far-right victory this Sunday, that could change. The leader of the FPÖ, Hebert Kickl, has made no secret of his desire to become Austrian federal chancellor with anti-immigration speeches, opposing the rights of sexual minorities, climate change denier and imitating dialectics about Trump: “Austria first!”