Mon Oct 10, 2022 – 5:24 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Less than an hour after the first projection showed that the establishment candidate won the presidential election in Austria, a member of the government announced that mask mandates would soon return.
On Sunday, October 9, former Green Party leader and sitting President Alexander Van der Bellen was the overwhelming favorite, according to polls.
Van der Bellen, by his own admission, is a former member of a Freemasonic lodge in the Austrian City of Innsbruck. He claimed to have been “active” for about a year in the mid-1970s. “After that, I continued to pay membership dues as a purely passive member for about 10 years and finally resigned at my explicit request.”
Three of the five political parties in the Austrian Parliament openly endorsed Van der Bellen before the election, and several politicians of the nominally conservative ÖVP had also stated their support for the sitting president.
Among the parties currently in Parliament, only the right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ) opposed Van der Bellen, calling him the “candidate of the failed system” and accusing him of dividing society by endorsing “completely unfounded and malicious” COVID policies.
On Sunday
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