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(29 Sep 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vienna - 29 September 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of protest
STORYLINE:
Anti-far-right protesters took to the streets outside the Austrian Parliament in Vienna on Sunday night after projections in national elections show the Freedom Party (FPO) was headed for the first far-right win in post-World War II Austria.
The Freedom Party was headed for finishing ahead of the governing conservatives after tapping into voters’ anxieties about immigration, inflation, Ukraine and other issues, a projection showed. But its chances of governing were unclear.
A projection for ORF public television, based on counting of over 90% of the votes, put support for the Freedom Party at 28.9% and Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s Austrian People’s Party at 26.3%.
The center-left Social Democrats were in third place with 21%.
The outgoing government — a coalition of Nehammer's party and the environmentalist Greens — lost its majority in the lower house of parliament.
Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister and longtime campaign strategist who has led the Freedom Party since 2021, wants to be chancellor.
But to become Austria’s new leader, he would need a coalition partner to command a parliamentary majority.
Rivals have said they won’t work with Kickl in government.
The far right has benefited from frustration over high inflation, the war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic. It has also built on worries about migration.
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(29 Sep 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vienna - 29 September 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of protest
STORYLINE:
Anti-far-right protesters took to the streets outside the Austrian Parliament in Vienna on Sunday night after projections in national elections show the Freedom Party (FPO) was headed for the first far-right win in post-World War II Austria.
The Freedom Party was headed for finishing ahead of the governing conservatives after tapping into voters’ anxieties about immigration, inflation, Ukraine and other issues, a projection showed. But its chances of governing were unclear.
A projection for ORF public television, based on counting of over 90% of the votes, put support for the Freedom Party at 28.9% and Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s Austrian People’s Party at 26.3%.
The center-left Social Democrats were in third place with 21%.
The outgoing government — a coalition of Nehammer's party and the environmentalist Greens — lost its majority in the lower house of parliament.
Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister and longtime campaign strategist who has led the Freedom Party since 2021, wants to be chancellor.
But to become Austria’s new leader, he would need a coalition partner to command a parliamentary majority.
Rivals have said they won’t work with Kickl in government.
The far right has benefited from frustration over high inflation, the war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic. It has also built on worries about migration.
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