Growing Greener

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Austrian parliamentary elections were today, and the results aren't terrible :) The conservative ÖVP gained a few percentage points despite being involved in several finance etc. scandals, boo, and the social democratic SPÖ lost a few percentage points, but at least the right-wing FPÖ lost a massive amount of votes, and the Green Party gained even more and is back in parliament. I'm relieved, I was worried it would be worse. (Coalition talks are going to be interesting...)

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[enemyofperfect]

Not terrible news in politics is wonderful news! Congratulations. :)

[schneefink]

Especially right now, absolutely.

[beatrice_otter]

Hey, take what you can get!

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Yep :)

[arduinna]

Oh, man, the relief at seeing "results aren't terrible". Congrats!

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Nowadays I don't have high expectations!

[dolorosa_12]

The results were such a relief. I'm glad the far-right seem to have been stopped (at least for now), in Austria. I'm interested to see what kind of coalition emerges.

[schneefink]

Eh, I think that's too optimistic... The ÖVP has drifted very far right, and I'm not sure at all that the FPÖ's loss is long-term. But one can hope.

[nonesensed]

Huzzah for none-terrible-election results! The world really needs more of that right now...

[schneefink]

Indeed!