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Austria’s youth vote for Nationalist parties as best hope for the future!

Populist leaders H. C. Strache of the Freedom Party (FPOe) with Dr. Jörg Haider of The Alliance for the Future (BZOe)

Far-Right Gains In Austria Vote

Election results could bring a Nationalist coalition

Austria’s Social Democrats won the most votes in the country’s early election but far-right parties made significant gains, the interior ministry has said.

Preliminary official results from Sunday’s poll show Social Democrats with 29.7% of the vote.

But the country’s two far-right parties made large gains, winning a total vote share of 29% between them.

The BBC’s Bethany Bell in Vienna said that rise in support is the result of protest votes on a variety of issues.

Our correspondent said the resurgent far right can be attributed to a mixture of anti-European Union sentiment, some anti-immigrant positions and a general sense of discontent with the two traditional centrist parties.

The conservative People’s Party, which had been in a faltering coalition with the Social Democrats that collapsed after 18 months, won 25.6%.

Young voters

Interior Minister Maria Fekter said the far-right Freedom Party had won 18.01% of the vote and the Alliance for the Future of Austria had 10.98%.

Our correspondent described the far-right gains as a “slap in the face” to the centrist parties, which suffered their worst results since World War II.

Final results will not be released until 6 October after absentee and postal ballots, making up about 10% of the votes, are counted.

For the first time in an EU country, 16 and 17-year-olds were able to vote. This bloc represented about 200,000 of the 6.3 million-strong electorate. (…Full Article)
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Israel is ‘concerned’ over Austria’s elections

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