Austria's Chancellor Karl Nehammer is stylizing the election campaign as a “duel” between his right-wing conservative ÖVP and the right- wing extremist FPÖ. Nehammer's tactics are clear: he also wants to be part of the race and is now just getting involved.
But he is trying to implement two strategies at the same time, which will get in each other's way, at least in the long term. A chancellor duel in Austria is at best between the left and the extreme right.