The results are like a shock for me.

Austria's voters have voted for the past - spending billions of Euros with laws passed three days before the elections and as if no financial crisis has happened in the past weeks.

Any liberal and thoughtful politics has been voted out (the liberals, green party or the liberal part of the people's party). Much rather, populists like Faymann, Haider or Strache have won the elections. We will see how that will turn out, but I doubt it this election result was a vote for the liberal, positive, forward-thinking youth ...