ofer is not your traditional right-Wing demagogue.
He is softly spoken – “doe-eyed” as one German newspaper described him, and he walks with a stick following a hand-gliding accident. Oh, and he likes to carry a Glock 9mm pistol with him on the campaign trail.
He has given seminars in rhetoric and “neurolinguistic programming”.
He is a smooth performer in front of the cameras and has been instrumental helping the FPO shed some of the harsher aspects of its image, turning the party once run by Jorg Haider into a vessel for broader discontent on the economy, immigration and security