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☆ Austria election results: Freedom Party secures first far-right win since World War II
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-29 | by ( Story Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Preliminary official results showed the Freedom Party finishing first with 29.2% of the vote and Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s Austrian People’s Party was second with 26.5%. Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders, whose party dominates the Netherlands’ new government, congratulated the Freedom Party on social network X Sunday. Herbert Kickl, leader of the Freedom Party of Austria poses with supporters, in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, after polls closed in the country's national election. The People’s Party is the far right’s only way into government, and now holds the key to forming any administration. But that looks very unlikely with the Freedom Party in first place.

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Though Austria is a member of the European Union, its far-right party leading the polls has strong links with Russian President Vladimir Putin — the bloc’s arch nemesis. The chairman and top candidate of the Freedom Party of Austria Herbert Kickl waves to supporters after kicking off his party's electoral campaign on September 7, 2024 in Graz, Austria. Kickl’s vision is to build “Fortress Austria” and “Fortress Europe,” as he put it during a debate on Austrian public television Thursday night. In 2016, party leader Heinz-Christian Strache signed a formal “cooperation pact” with Putin’s United Russia party. The FPÖ’s return is far from certain, currently polling at 27%, narrowly ahead of the ruling Austrian People’s Party on 25% and the Social Democratic Party of Austria on 21%, according to European polling aggregator PolitPro.

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☆ Austrian Social Democrats feted wrong new leader after ballot mix-up
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The party's electoral commission head Michaela Grubesa said on Monday the results had been attributed to the wrong candidates and the winner was in fact Andreas Babler. "Unfortunately, the paper ballots did not match the result that was announced digitally," she told a news conference. The correct count was 280 votes for Doskozil and 317 votes for Babler, or about 47% to 53%. He said he had requested another recount and would become leader if the result was confirmed. "If I take over this party I will work with my team towards the full comeback of Social Democracy," he said.

Persons: Hans Peter Doskozil, Michaela Grubesa, Andreas Babler, Grubesa, Babler, Michael Jungwirth, Francois Murphy, Angus MacSwan Organizations: Austria's Social, Social Democracy, Kleine Zeitung, Thomson Locations: VIENNA, Burgenland

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