MCC Votes & Seats Podcast – Election insight
Az MCC Politikatudományi Műhelyének beszélgetéssorozatában szakértők és politikusok segítségével azt elemezzük, hogy a különböző európai országokban aktuálisan zajló parlamenti és önkormányzati választásoknak mely szereplők a valódi nyertesei és mi tekinthető igazi győzelemnek a szavazások után.
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With the help of local guest experts, in the podcast series of the MCC Center for Political Science, we endeavor to analyze which actors are the real winners of the parliamentary elections taking place throughout Europe, and what exactly can be considered an ultimate victory after the ballot counts.
MCC Votes & Seats Podcast – Election insight
The End of an Era? Lessons Learned from the 2024 Austrian Legislative Election
The conservatives and the social democrats were in charge for 80 years, maybe now it’s time for something new – says Dr. Ralph Schölhammer, assistant professor of International Relations at Webster Vienna Private University.
On 29 September 2024, Austrians went to the polls to elect the members of the 28th National Council, the lower house of the country's bicameral parliament.
The Freedom Party (FPÖ) celebrated an unprecedented yet foreseeable victory in a campaign dominated by immigration issues and worries about the economy. The national conservative party’s plans to introduce firm rules against illegal immigration resonated with a considerable part of the society, the assistant professor explains.
Our guest expert claims that the outgoing government of the center-right People's Party (ÖVP) and the progressivist Greens lost considerable support amid rising inflation, as well as skyrocketing housing, electricity, and fuel prices. However, the slow decline of the biggest opposition player, the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) has to do with the general loss of interest of the people about the emancipation endeavors of different social/gender/ethnic minorities, which is a global phenomenon, Schölhammer adds.
- Care to know more about contemporary social, economic, and political tendencies going on at our “Brother in law’s?”
- Interested in why our guest analyst claims that Hungary’s western neighbor has always been a culturally center-right country?
- Want to know why September 2024 marks the end of an era in the county of winter sports and Alpine traditions?
Give a listen to the Austria episode of the Votes & Seats podcast, hosted by researcher-lecturer Bálint L. Tóth.
With the help of guest experts and politicians, in the podcast series of MCC’s Centre for Political Science we endeavor to analyze which actors are the real winners of the parliamentary and municipal elections taking place this year in different European countries and what exactly can be considered a real victory after the ballot counts.