Nazi row lawmaker refuses to quit

[emad]

An Austrian legislator has retracted a promise to resign over remarks he made expressing sympathy to the Nazis.

Siegfried Kampl also said he would take up the rotating post of president of the upper house of parliament in July.

He had said he would relinquish his seat amid pressure from all sides after he deplored the "brutal persecution" of Austrian Nazis after World War II.

Last month, he said his father was a member of Adolf Hitler's Nazi party like "more than 99%" of Austrians.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4591725.stm

[Zuni]

1. Austria has quite a large RW movement

and over there in Europe it is neo-nazi/skinhead/national front type rather than the fundamentalist religious/anti-government right that is the dominant RW movement here

interesting

[femmecahors]

2. And our dear Arnold sprung from those loins! n/t

[ooglymoogly]

3. ve don't sing in da streets of vienna. eom