Herbert Kickl, Austria’s hard-right ideologue who played the long game
Mr Kickl’s political hero is Viktor Orban, Hungary’s autocratic leader. But unlike Hungarian voters who first voted Mr Orban in, few Austrian voters seem enamoured with Mr Kickl. Only 2% of FPÖ voters in September said they voted for the party because of Mr Kickl, while 45% said they did so because of its policies.
Herbert Kickl, Austria’s far-right leader eyeing the chancellorship
For years Herbert Kickl was written off by many, including party comrades, as a figure best suited for work behind the scenes. An Eigenbrötler, they joked: someone who bakes their own bread. Now, he looks almost certain to be Austria’s next chancellor — one of the most successful figureheads for Europe’s insurgent far right.
He is so abrasive that he has one of Austria's lowest personal approval ratings, but far-right chief Herbert Kickl's ...
Even so, according to polls, the FPÖ will do still better if snap elections are held. Kronen Zeitung, Austria’s ...
The Freedom Party and its leader, Herbert Kickl, have steadily built support by demonizing immigrants, while entering Austria ...
Talks to form a coalition government led by Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPO) will begin on Friday, the party said on ...
Vienna could be about to get its first far-right leader since World War II. Europe’s mainstream sees trouble brewing.
Austrian politics has taken a turn, potentially to the far-right, that could usher the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) ...
Austria’s anti-immigrant Freedom Party crept closer to appointing its first chancellor after receiving an invitation by the ...
The Austrian far-right leader has said in his first comments after being tasked to form a new government that he aspires to ...
Herbert Kickl, the conservative-nationalist tasked this week with forming Austria’s next government, is at once one of the most admired and loathed politicians in the country’s post-World War II ...
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