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FP� candidate will boost Fischer bid

Comment by Thomas Hochwarter

President Heinz Fischer�s bid for a second term in office will benefit if the Freedom Party (FP�) decides to nominate a candidate.

Heinz-Christian Strache, head of the right-wing opposition party, recently announced the FP� would definitely name someone to challenge Fischer�s campaign.

Barbara Rosenkranz, head of the FP֒s Lower Austrian branch, is rumoured to be preparing to run for president in the elections set to take place in April.

While analysts see a potential of around ten per cent for the mother-of-ten � who represents the FP֒s ultra-conservative wing � her nomination as well as the running of any other candidate would come in as handy support for Fischer.

The 71-year-old former Social Democratic (SP�) Education Minister has been accused by conservative newspapers of failing to make his point on controversial topics too often.

Polls have shown that Lower Austrian People�s Party (�VP) Governor Erwin Pr�ll � who ruled himself out of a run for the presidency � is the only politician with a chance of beating Fischer, whose activities would be overshadowed by a lack of competition if no other main party puts up a candidate.

The running of an FP� candidate would boost Fischer�s campaign as it would enable him to put his views across more effectively than he has so far.

If the FP� or the �VP nominate candidates for the election, it would also stop tabloid media branding the presidential election a waste of tax-payers� money under current circumstances.

Fischer can meanwhile prepare his portfolio for the next six years � unless Hermann Maier suddenly says it has always been his dream to be Austrian president.

Austrian Times

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Eric Price wrote on 20. 01. 2010 from Neuwaldegg about "FP� candidate will boost ..."

First a fact, there is always a choice of candidates in a democracy otherwise there is a taste of dictatorship. Secondly, in my opinion Fischer has done nothing for the people but supporting the (socialist mainly) political line. To be precise, he has done nothing for the people in these financial crisis: the banks, ORF, Ã�BB and 'those others' get all and the Middle Class in particular and made poorer and poorer. No wunder that the people voted for the Right in 1938; socialist greed above all!

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