VIENNA. The Austrian ultra-right, the FPÖ makes an exploit never seen beforeaccording to the first projections, which will be confirmed during the evening. With the polls closed, the result was an unexpected 29% (+12.9%), while the party was at 27% in the polls until the last few days. For the first time since 1945, a right-wing extremist party comes first in the elections. And for the first time since 1945, the SPö social democrats came third, with 20%, losing votes and position. The ÖVP, the people’s party of outgoing Chancellor Karl Nehammer, is second with -11% and 26% of the votes.
An incredible result for the leader of the nationalist and fiercely anti-migrant formation, Herbert Kickl, who pushed the FPö to the topafter the Ibiza gate scandals and mixed fortunes (in 2000 the former leader Jörg Haider was sanctioned by 14 European states, including Italy, for his markedly anti-Semitic, Islamophobic and neo-Nazi programme).
TOWARDS THE EUROPEANS
Voting in Austria, Wolfang Sobotka speaks: “Kurz was betrayed by our people. Kickl is anti-democratic, no to migrant quotas”
by our correspondent Letizia Tortello
Now, the battle is for the chancellery. It will be difficult for the President of the Republic Alexander Van der Bellen to ignore the result of the polls, which must however be confirmed with the counting of the votes in the evening, including those by post (numerous in Austria). Van der Bellen had said that he would not grant a mandate to form the government to Kickl, perceived as too extremist, Eurosceptic, pro-Russian and with an agenda that wants to close the country to all migrants (“Zero asylum, remigration for those who are already here », says the leader).
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