Burgenland election

Most dazzling red against most successful blue

Battle for Lake Neusiedl. FPÖ leader Hofer competes with state leader Doskozil.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/APA, Stock Adobe)

Burgenland votes on the most dazzling Social Democrat since Bruno Kreisky and the most successful Freedom Party candidate to date. And whether Michael Ludwig will lose his worst enemy. 

Bad critics speak of Austria's Cuba: reeds, sun and debt. Enthusiastic supporters see a successful economic and socio-political experiment for social democracy in Austria: Burgenland. Hans Peter Doskozil governs the easternmost federal state with a firm but generous hand. Nowhere else in Austria have so many companies, indeed entire industries, been financed and taken over by the state. In two weeks' time, a vote will be held on this extremely independent and independent-minded course.