Austria's established parties reap Lisbon betrayal's dividend. Merkel crushed in Bavaria!

The Times, here, has one report of the brilliant Austrian election results which were announced yesterday evening The mainstream parties recorded their lowest share of the vote since the Second World War, with the Social Democrats dropping 7 per cent to 29.7 per cent, while the conservative People’s Party won 25.6 per cent of the vote — a decline of 9 per cent compared with 2006. The first signs of hope that the treacherous leaders of Europe's established party will soon be brutally punished all across the Continent of Europe as they so richly deserve were also visible just across the Austrian border in Bavaria on Sunday. This is from Bloomberg, linked here:

The result is a blow to Merkel, who came to power in 2005 with a single seat majority in the federal parliament with the help of the CSU's 46 lawmakers. She now faces a national election in September 2009 with a weakened political ally just as her main rivals, the Social Democrats, are polling higher after a change of leadership.

``This will cause a shock of seismic proportions in Berlin,'' Paul Nolte, a politics professor at Berlin's Free University, said in an interview. ``Merkel can say goodbye to her dream of the CDU with the CSU getting at least 40 percent in the federal elections. That's over: Suddenly, her prospects next year have started to look much less rosy.''

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