The right-wing nationalist party FPÖ won the parliamentary elections in Austria this Sunday (29), for the first time, obtaining 29.1% of the votes, according to the first projections based on real votes, ahead of the conservative ÖVP, which obtained 26.3 %.
The party grew 13 percentage points compared to the 2019 results, with its message against immigration and criticism of the measures taken by the current government, made up of conservatives and environmentalists, to control the Covid-19 pandemic.
In turn, the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), leader of the Executive at the end of its term, lost 11 points compared to the last elections.
According to these first projections, which are based on real votes, the social democratic SPÖ would be the third force in the Austrian Parliament, with 20.9% of the votes (0.3% below its latest results).
Also entering Parliament are the Neos liberals (8.8%) and the Greens (8.7%), who have been the Popular Party’s minority partner in government, and who have lost more than five points since the last elections.
The FPÖ, a party allied with other right-wing nationalist groups in Europe, such as the Brothers of Italy and the Hungarian Fidesz, thus achieved its best electoral result, even surpassing that of its historic leader Jörg Haider in 1999.
On that occasion, despite being the second most voted force, the party handed over government leadership to the ÖVP, which came in third place.
This time, however, the party already announced during the campaign that, if it wins the elections, it will demand that it be entrusted with the task of forming an Executive.
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