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Extreme Right Wins Big in Austrian Poll

Posted Sep 29, 08 7:56 AM CDT in World 

(Newser) – Austrians woke up today to a shock election result, as 2 extreme right parties won nearly a third of the vote and the two main parties posted their worst results since World War II. The next chancellor will probably be Social Democrat leader Werner Faymann, with 30% of the electorate, but he will struggle to form a coalition after ruling out talks with the two anti-immigrant, anti-Islam parties.

In Vienna last night supporters of the hard-right Freedom Party—mostly young and middle-aged men—drank beer and shouted as the results came in. The Freedom Party had a role in one Austrian government, in 2000, provoking the European Union to impose sanctions. This time, though, the most likely outcome is a German-style grand coalition between the mainstream left and right parties.
Source: Reuters

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Werner Faymann arrives at Social Democrat party headquarters in Vienna. Faymann will become Austria's new chancellor, but the real winners may turn out to be the country's two far-right parties.   (AP Photo/Andreas Schaad)
Heinz Christian Strache, top candidate of the right-wing Freedom Party, gestures, while delivering a statement at their party's tent in downtown Vienna, on Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008.   (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)
Top candidate for national elections from the Alliance for the Future of Austria, Joerg Haider stretches his arms when arriving at a polling station in Klagenfurt, Austria, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008.   (AP Photo/Gert Eggenberger)
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