Third place on the podium
According to the latest poll, the Beer organization (Die Bierpartei) has already gained 12% of support in Vienna, making it the 3rd political force in the Austrian capital, as reported by a survey by the paper “Heute”. In the erstwhile municipal elections in this city, the organization besides competed, but then only 1.8% of the vote.
Headed Die Bierpartei stands charismatic punk stone musician Dominik Wlazly, more known as Marco Pogo. He plays for the Turbobier team. Among the party's proposals are the free transportation of beer to Austrian houses, the construction of a “beer font” in Vienna, as well as the introduction of an additional taxation on radler beer and “other specified crimes”.
As Wlazly himself jokes:
From a democratic and political perspective, it is highly controversial that in the past there have been stories of drunken and inept politicians. There is simply a clear request for BPÖ organization professionals [then the organization was named Bierpartei Österreich – ed.]
However, it cannot be hidden that the number 1 in the poll is inactive the Social Democratic SPÖ, which can number on 35% of the vote.
VIEN | Sonntagsfrage Landtagswahl Unique Research/HEUTE
SPÖ: 35% (-6.6)
FPÖ: 23% (+15.9)
BIER: 12% (+10,2)
ÖVP: 10% (-10,4)
GRÜNE: 8% (-6.8)
NEOS: 8% (+0.5)
KPÖ: 3% (+0.9)
Sonstige: 1% (-3,7)
Änderungen zu 2020
Verlauf: https://t.co/vcC108OCCn#ltwWienWienWahlpic.twitter.com/XDgxrz1gVY
— Österreich Wählt (@Wahlen_AT) October 9, 2023
Polish organization of Beer Friends
Perhaps the thought of setting up specified a organization will not surprise many of our people at all. After all, we have had a akin episode in our history.
With beer you can exchange views, with beer it's easier to scope a deal, get along – sounded 1 of the slogans of the Polish Beer Friends Party.
A comic political initiative proved very successful, due to the fact that thanks to the first character the Polish organization of Friends of Beer won 3.27% of the vote (tenth place out of 111 election committees), which gave beer group 16 seats in the Sejm.
Just as different as the name of the group was the electoral run of the Polish Beer Friends organization itself. The group competed for the Sejm under the slogan of combating alcoholism. More specifically, switching vodka to a beer tasting. The first president of PPPP was noted actor and cabaret Janusz Rewiński. The political beerers besides included specified celebrities as Krzysztof Ibisz, Leszek Bubel, Adam Halber, Karol Strasburger and Kazimierz Górski.
Today PPPP is the past, although it seems that any elements of the run of this organization are being utilized by Sławomir Mentzen himself. Unfortunately, it is hard to measure how much his real strategy is and how much his gag is. I have no doubt, however, that present Jan Spiewak would mention to specified an initiative as “patus.”
