Four main parties are in the running this year and Austria elects 20 MEPs to the parliament, up from the 19 seats it had in the last election in 2019, due in part to the UK’s 73 seats being partially redistributed following its withdrawal from the union.
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00:00 Austrian parties aiming for seats in the European Parliament have held their final campaign
00:06 events ahead of voting on Sunday in the EU elections.
00:11 The Conservative People's Party was the winner in the last EU elections in 2019, winning
00:16 seven seats.
00:18 The party's candidate this time around is Reinhold Lopatka.
00:22 He is pro-EU but has expressed anti-immigration views and said the rising number of Muslims
00:27 in Austria has completely changed our society.
00:32 He said that cooperation at European level with another Austrian party, the Austrian
00:36 Freedom Party, is impossible.
00:38 The Austrian Green Party's lead candidate, Lena Schilling, has become
01:08 something of a tabloid star in Austria in recent weeks.
01:12 The 23-year-old former climate activist was at the centre of a media storm after a leading
01:17 newspaper published text messages she sent to a friend saying she hated no one as much
01:22 as the Greens.
01:24 Schilling explained that the messages were jokes and she was questioning whether as a
01:28 leftist activist the Greens was the right party for her.
01:32 She's been vocal in her criticism of what she calls "lame excuses" from politicians not
01:37 to address the underlying causes of the climate crisis.
02:06 Newcomers on the political scene this year are the right-wing populist DNA Party, short
02:11 for Democratic, Neutral, Authentic.
02:14 Their lead candidate is Maria Hubmer-Mogg, who became well-known in Austria for her anti-lockdown
02:20 and anti-vaccination stance in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
02:25 The party says it aims to counter World Health Organization influence and push for a tougher
02:29 asylum policy.
02:34 Austria elects 20 MEPs to the parliament, up from the 19 seats it had in the last election
02:39 in 2019.
02:41 That's due in part to the UK's 73 seats being partially redistributed following its withdrawal
02:46 from the union.
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