EP elections

I have just read an article in today's online edition of "austriantimes.at" and it talks about the EP elections.
I thought you might be interested because our election was on last Sunday and this elections regards Europa.

Basically what it says is that the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) and the People's Party (ÖVP) lose lots of votes.
The Freedom Party (FPÖ) and the Greens had a strong icrease to the last vote in 2004. The Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) took part in an EP election for the first time.
It also says that the Social Democratic Party was the biggest loser and that the People's Party will win six mandates.

What surprised me is the fact that the Social Democrats and the People's Party were expected to suffer losses in the election.
What interested me is the fact that the People's Party always made clear that there would be no new taxes in the near future.

In my opinion, the rest of the text isn't very interesting because there are only the statements of the different Party members.