Dirty campaigning à la House of Cards in Austria
Smear campaigns, threats and leaks: Austria’s general election campaign was not only the country’s longest ever, but its dirtiest too.
Dominik Kirchdorfer is a European writer of Austrian and Polish descent and the founder of the European Future Forum (EFF). He studied Political Science at the University of Vienna and holds a postgraduate degree in EU Politics from the LSE and in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. After working for a year in Brussels, he has now returned to Austria.
Smear campaigns, threats and leaks: Austria’s general election campaign was not only the country’s longest ever, but its dirtiest too.
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