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the_real_Naruto posted...

is it like that where you are from? I am always curious on politics from countries foreign for ours.

We also have our political issues for sure.
The big two ones are Ukraine (and Russia) and Immigration.

At least that's the big political topic here these days.

But the big advantage of a multiparty system is that I can talk shit about any party, and if someone asks "well, who you gonna vote for?" you can geniuly say "honestly, no idea so far".

We also have an election in half a year, and currently our federal government is conservative/green coalition. People are extremly unsatisfied with everything these days, so sadly the far right is making some ground.

We buy too much gas from Russia and one of our big banks is also still "active" there (well, they got fucked because they can't pull out anymore).

But the biggest political topic is, without a doubt, immigration and refugees, mostly because they are not evenly distributed within the EU, and not even within the country, but cluster in single cities or districts.

To put it in numbers: 80% of kids in middle schools in Vienna (capital of Austria) don't speak german as their primary language. We have issues teaching kids the native language, because the population grows faster than we get new teacher and new class rooms.

This year some schools had to start setting up container class rooms in their school yard, because they have no rooms available anymore, but this doesn't solve the problem of a lack of teachers.

Yet if we are looking within Austria at the countryside it's not so extreme, and if we look at eastern europe, there is nearly no such immigration at all.

At this point, the discussion isn't even about left vs. right anymore here, it's mostly some infighting between federal government vs. local government, and sometimes even within the same party.

It turned into a very big blame game, and because our far right party is currently in no office at all, everyone gets blamed but them (allowing them to grow at least in the polls so far).

And ofc we have our own usual corruption scandals, but we already grew numb to them.

But be aware that every nation in europe has a different discussion. Different government, different issues, different blame game.

What is the top political topic here in Austria, wont be the top political topic in Czech Republic or Slovakia, even if their border is only ~60km away from my place.

Well, I'm sure the Ukraine topic is also big for them (especially for Slovakia, bordering Ukraine directly).