‘hangover’ medal at the Beer Party
Sunday 9 October in Austria presidential elections were held. The outgoing president Alexander Van der Bellen he was re-elected with the 56.69% of votes. But what makes the most sobering is the third placeawarded by Beer Party (in German: Birpartei) who wins the ‘drunk’ medal with Domenico Wlazny p. She is 35 years old and she is graduated in medicine at the University of Vienna and besides being an Austrian politician he is also comic And musician whose stage name is Marco Pogo. It was supposed to be a joke, but it isn’t. The polls gave him no more than 5% and instead can boast 8.31% preferences, which proportionally, if this had happened in Italy, would be the sixth Italian party ahead of Calenda and Renzi.
A wave of votes among the young people under 30. Austrian youth believe in hops. “Thank you! I’m speechless! I finished third in this election. In Vienna I finished second after Van der Bellen, ahead of the FPÖ. For the under 30s there would even have been a ballot between me and Alexander Van der Bellen,” he wrote the party leader on Twitter after the result. In the program party reads: “abolition of all taxes related to drinks in bars and restaurants, to fly with one maxi-tax at 50% on the Radler“(a beer combined with a soft drink, soda, lemonade or other) which for Wlazny represents the male. The party says enough to subsidies, replaced with a monthly supply of a barrel of beer to all Austrian families. To these proposals is added the construction of a fountain with beer instead of water in the historic center of Vienna.
Wlazny founded his Bierpartei in 2014 almost for fun, equating it to a “satirical project“This coincided with the release of the song Die Birpartei on the debut album of Turbobiere. The party first participated in the elections in the elections 2019 submitting a list in Vienna for the Austrian parliamentary elections. He was the main candidate of the party, which got just under 5,000 votes (0.10%) and no seats. The party ran again in the state elections in Vienna of 2020 and, although he failed to win city council seats with 1.8% of the vote, the party won eleven seats on various district councils. Wlazny, again leading candidate, was elected to the board of Simmer. Gradually it has always gained more support, coming to have in these last elections 307,449 votes.