According to provisional data from the state news agency Anadolu Ajansi, almost 74% of all Turks in Austria with voting rights voted for Erdogan. The old and new president fared particularly well in Austria in an international comparison.
The result for the incumbent was again better than at home in other European countries with large Turkish communities, most notably in Germany, where according to preliminary results around 67.4 percent voted for Erdogan, France (66.6 percent) , Netherlands (70.4) and Belgium (74.9). On the other hand, in countries like the United Kingdom, Sweden and Switzerland, Kemal Kilicdaroglu came out ahead.
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Reumannplatz as the center of celebrations in Vienna
Numerous supporters of the Turkish president celebrated the election victory in Vienna late Sunday night, focusing on Reumannplatz in Vienna-Favoriten. Videos on social media showed revelers loudly waving Turkish flags and pictures of Erdogan.
According to a spokesperson for the Vienna police, there were motorcades at the spontaneous and unannounced rallies from 8.30 pm around Reumannplatz, which caused considerable disruption to traffic. The situation calmed down again around 11:30 pm due to the intervention of those responsible and respective reports.
According to a police spokesman, potentially endangered objects such as Ernst Kirchweger’s house – which has been targeted by Turkish hooligans in the past – and embassies were also secured and the many hundreds of revelers prevented from moving on. According to the police, there were also announcements in accordance with the “symbol law”, as – as at previous events – the banned wolf salute was displayed by individual Erdogan supporters.
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Spontaneous motorcades in Vienna
Interior Minister announces investigations
Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) thanked his officials for their “cautious action” and announced investigations by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in connection with the wolf salute: “The democratic constitutional state and its laws must be respected by all the people who live in our country,” explained Karner in a statement. “This is the basis for peaceful coexistence. However, the glorification of an extremist ideology by showing the wolf salute clearly contradicts our laws and is consistently persecuted.”
Integration Minister Susanne Raab (ÖVP) said: “Imported political activism and violence must be condemned in the strongest terms and punished with the full severity of the law. Nationalism imported from abroad is the opposite of integration and has no place among us”.
After the election in Türkiye
The opposition criticizes the elections in Türkiye. It wasn’t fair and it didn’t work according to international standards.
FPÖ criticizes the city of Vienna and the Ministry of the Interior
The Viennese FPÖ used the rallies as an opportunity to locate a “caliphate” for which the SPÖ and Mayor Michael Ludwig had favored, to ask the Home Minister to resign, and to urge Erdogan supporters to emigrate to Turkey. The head of the Viennese FPÖ, Dominik Nepp, and the chairman of his favorite district party, Stefan Berger, spoke in a broadcast about “thousands of fanatical men” and a “serious threat to freedom and democracy”, in the face of which the “incompetent ” Minister of the Interior and State Security “completely failed”.
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The leader of the FPÖ, Herbert Kickl, had the same word in this regard, for him “the audacity of the fanatics is a result of the weakness of the SPÖ and the ÖVP and also of decades of negligence in the subject of integration”. ÖVP General Secretary Christian Stocker said for his part that Kickl had failed “across the board” during his time as Minister of the Interior. After all, he had almost two years to “stop such developments”.