Comeback Attempt with Sausage Stand: Strache Mobilizes for Vienna Election

The former FPÖ leader Heinz-Christian Strache wants nothing less than to "save our Vienna." With this slogan, his list "Team HC Strache" enters the campaign for the Vienna City Council election on April 27.

"Vienna Broken in Many Areas": Strache Appeals to Disappointed FPÖ Voters

"Vienna is broken in many areas," stated Strache at the poster presentation on Friday, particularly referring to the crime development. Due to the FPÖ's "pandering" to radical Islam, they hope for votes from disappointed blue voters.

"Well-integrated Turks want nothing to do with ATIB," says Strache. Because the "Nepp-FPÖ" is campaigning for votes with the Turkish-Islamic association, "the truly well-integrated Austrians with an integration background" would turn away in horror and towards him as well as other Austrians. For this reason, the former FPÖ leader is confident that, starting from a core voter base of two to three percent, he can create momentum that could make entering the Vienna City Council possible this time.

Strache Tours Vienna with "Speakers' Corner" and Mobile Sausage Stand

A "new political force in the municipal council" is necessary because in the past five years "not much has been heard" from the actual opposition. Their politicians would "sit in their ivory towers." In contrast, starting next week, Strache plans to visit inns, wine taverns, and tobacconists and be on the streets with a "Speakers' Corner" and a mobile sausage stand.

A security initiative for the federal capital is demanded, more places for nursing training, more health prevention such as free Alzheimer's tests from the age of 60, a free parking permit, and an end to the "destruction of parking spaces."

Team HC Strache Aims for Basic Mandate in Vienna Election

The posters, reminiscent of classic FPÖ themes in the colors white, blue, and red with the likeness of the former Vice-Chancellor, are to be posted in two waves on 300 triangular stands and 1,100 larger areas. The former FPÖ leader, who stumbled over the Ibiza scandal and expense affair, is also being promoted on flyers as "Mature, Better, Strache." The campaign budget is just under half a million euros, financed from reserves and with the help of a loan, according to Strache.

The starting conditions are completely different from five years ago, when the list practically failed at the five percent hurdle with a 3.27 percent share of the vote without a budget, according to Strache. The targeted goal is a basic mandate in Strache's current residential district of Vienna-Floridsdorf.

(APA/Red)

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