State Elections and The Campaign in Vienna
Since the split, the FPÖ's results in state elections have been mixed. While it dropped out of the Styria Landtag and was reduced to 5.7% in Burgenland, it surpassed expectations in the Vienna elections of October 2005. Strache himself was the leading candidate in Vienna, and the party received 14.9% of votes. Strache's campaign, included slogans such as:
- Wien darf nicht Istanbul werden (Vienna must not become Istanbul). A variation on an FPÖ slogan from the Haider era: Wien darf nicht Chicago werden. Vienna has a significant Turkish minority, the FPÖ is opposed to Turkish EU membership and it refers to the defeat of the Ottoman empire in the Battle of Vienna in 1683, a symbolic historic victory of the West over Islam.
- Daham statt Islam ("at home", not Islam)
- Deutsch statt "nix verstehen" (German, not "no understand")
- Pummerin statt Muezzin (Pummerin, not muezzin). Pummerin is the main bell in St. Stephan's Cathedral in Vienna, and so a religious Christian symbol in Vienna.
- Heimat im Herzen (homeland at heart)
- Arbeit statt Zuwanderung (jobs, not immigration)
Jörg Haider said about Strache that if he, Haider, had run such a campaign, the press would have been all over him.
Read more about this topic: Heinz-Christian Strache
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