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Racism & fascism - in brief (8)

01 January 1991

Racism & fascism - in brief
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* Far right gains in polls: In Austria the far right Freedom
Party (FPO), led by neo-Nazi Jorg Haider, made significant gains
in three provincial elections in Carinthia, Salzburg and Tyrol
in March. In Carinthia, Austria's poorest state and the FPOs
power-base, they polled an unprecedented 33.3% of the vote. The
ruling Social Democrats, whose vote plunged by 9%, took 37.4% of
the vote. This was enough to ensure that Haider would not regain
the governorship he was forced to resign in 1991, after declaring
his admiration for Hitler's `employment' practices. In Holland
representatives of the extreme-right racist parties
Centrumdemokraten and the smaller CP '86 and Nationaal Blok have
won 87 seats in nation-wide local elections on March 2. Four
years ago, they won 17 seats, but this time they managed to
present candidates in a much larger number of cities. In
Rotterdam, with 13.7% of the votes the rightwing extremists
became the second-largest political group, nearly doubling their
1990 vote. In Amsterdam they won 9.7% of the votes (6.8%, 1990).
Independent 4.3.94; Statewatch contributor.

* Irving jailed: Nazi revisionist historian, David Irving, was
sentenced to three months imprisonment for contempt of court in
February. Police arrested Irving at his Mayfair home after a High
Court judge found him in contempt for failing to provide details
of his assets after he was sued by a German publisher. Irving had
received an advance payment of DM150,000 for two volumes of a
biography of Winston Churchill, but had failed to produce the
second volume. He was released after serving ten days.

Statewatch Vol 4 no 2, March-April 1994