What do they mean by these protests?

Who are they demanding do what to who?

Do they want the cops to arrest the FPO members? Or what? What is the meaning of the protest? When you protest, you are asking for something, no? What are they asking for?

Reuters:

Talks to form a coalition government led by Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPO) will begin on Friday, the party said on Thursday, as thousands protested in Vienna against the prospect of the country’s first FPO-led government.

The eurosceptic, Russia-friendly FPO won September’s parliamentary election with around 29% of the vote but was initially sidelined as centrist parties tried to form a ruling coalition without it. That effort failed at the weekend, and FPO leader Herbert Kickl was tasked with forming a government.

“First step: negotiations on the budget as of tomorrow,” Kickl said in a statement on Thursday evening while protesters carrying placards reading “Nazis out” and “History is repeating itself” gathered in the square that stands between the offices of the president and the chancellor.

Chancellor Karl Nehammer of the conservative People’s Party (OVP), who had led the centrist coalition talks, said on Saturday he was stepping down because they had collapsed. His successor as head of the caretaker government, Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg, is due to take over on Friday.

Various non-governmental organisations that deal with human rights, refugees and the environment called Thursday’s protest, Thursday being the day for demonstrations when the FPO was in power as a junior coalition partner – its only experience of government – most recently with the OVP in 2019.

“Our republic is at a crossroads,” the organisers said in a statement. “The threat of an extreme right-wing chancellor looms and with him an attack on democracy, human rights, judiciary, independent media and social cohesion in our country.”

More than 10,000 protesters packed tightly together on the square and streets leading into it whistled, jeered and shone their phone lights towards the chancellor’s office, chanting “Kickl out” in a peaceful atmosphere.

The OVP, which under Nehammer said it would not govern with Kickl, calling him a conspiracy theorist and a security threat, now says under interim leader Christian Stocker that it prefers to reach a coalition deal with Kickl to holding a snap election.

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Support for the FPO has only increased since September, polls show, and the party now has a lead of more than 10 percentage points over the OVP.

It’s so exhausting to live in a country with empowered women.

It just never ends with these whores.

There’s nothing anyone can do to stop them.

They might think this is going to happen, but it is probably not going to happen.

Unless they can bypass the European Court of Human Rights, which has been impossible for anyone to do thus far, there is no way to get “migrants” out of your country once they’re in.

Definitely, they can’t ship them back to Syria, which is about to be way worse than it was in October.

Reuters:

Austria is reviewing the status of Syrian refugees who arrived less than five years ago, Chancellor Karl Nehammer said on Thursday after media reports that some had been notified by letter that they “no longer have to fear political persecution”.

Nehammer, a conservative who is trying to form a new coalition government while under fire from the far right, pounced on the fall of Bashar al-Assad on Dec. 8, saying the same day that the security situation in Syria should be reviewed so as to allow deportations there.

Since then he and his caretaker government have clarified that their initial focus will be on voluntary deportations, with those volunteering to return home being offered 1,000 euros ($1,037). Austria is also among more than a dozen European countries to suspend the processing of Syrians’ asylum claims.

“Austria … is now reviewing the eligibility for protection of Syrians who have been in the country for less than 5 years,” Nehammer said on X.

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Austrian law allows the authorities to revoke a refugee’s status in some cases within five years of it being granted. Syrians are the biggest group of asylum seekers in Austria.

Nehammer’s People’s Party (OVP) has made a hard line on immigration one of its hallmarks, to the point that the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) has accused it of stealing its ideas.

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The United Nations’ refugee agency said it was “clearly premature” to initiate such proceedings.

“They should only be initiated if the situation in the country of origin has fundamentally changed and a safe, permanent return would in fact be possible for those affected,” the UNHCR’s Austria chief Christoph Pinter said in a statement.

“That is definitely not the case at the moment.”

That’s the UN.

But the ECHR makes all of these decisions, and there is no way around it within the current framework of “EU law.”

Obviously, I don’t support refugees and think it is better that they should just die, but insofar as the concept is valid, it’s going to be a lot more valid in a few months when the Syrian “rebel alliance” breaks at the seams.

This of it for a minute: if overthrowing Assad meant the refugees are going back, the EU would never have supported overthrowing Assad.

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