Wharever happened to........

[Blues2001]

.......Joerg Haider?

Remember that Austrian right wing political leader who the media where dubbing 'the new Hitler' a couple of years back?

Does anyone know what's happened to him and whether he is still likely to rise to power in Austria and send the country back 60 years?

 

[Dippers Donuts]

I think this right wing nutcase is still hanging around the fringes of Austrian politics.

After resigning as leader of the Freedom party i'm pretty sure he is still the governor of his local province in Austria, still spouting his extremist views.

I think there was a bit of Hansonism in his rise to power (ie tapping into the latent fears of the rednecks) so hopefully he wont surface in a position of power again.