Dirty election campaign

Slander, madness, racism and petrol

The chats about Schilling were the top topic of the election campaign, which also had other things to offer.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Krone KREATIV | Fotos: AFP (3), REUTERS, EPA, stock.adobe.com (3))

This election campaign will go down in history. It was dominated by the allegations surrounding the Green Party's top candidate Lena Schilling and the Greens' botched crisis communication. But what did the other parties actually do? The "Krone" takes stock of a unique and dirty election campaign.

Unsurprisingly, Schilling was the politician with the highest media presence in May. The accusations against the 23-year-old published by "Der Standard" kept her at the center of the coverage for weeks. With 645 articles, she is well ahead of FPÖ candidate Harald Vilimsky with a total of 199 articles, the leaders of the SPÖ and ÖVP, Andreas Schieder (150 articles) and Reinhold Lopatka (137 articles) and the NEOS candidate Helmut Brandstätter (86 articles) in the APA-Comm ranking of EU candidates. However, this media presence was anything but positive for Schilling.