Austria’s far right makes big poll gains
The Social Democratic party held on to its position as Austria’s largest political group in yesterday’s general election, but its win was overshadowed by massive gains by two far-right parties.
The ballot resulted in a highly fragmented political landscape that will make it difficult to form a new coalition government.
According to preliminary results the Social Democrats slid from 35 to 29.7 per cent, a better showing than the latest opinion polls predicted, while its current coalition partner, the centre-right People’s party, tumbled from 34 per cent to a disastrous 25.6 per cent. It was a historical low for the two parties that had dominated the country’s political system since 1945 and ruled jointly in a grand coalition for most of that time.
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Austria's far right makes big poll gains
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