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Topic: Austrian election results, Anschluss anyone?
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Wilf Day
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posted 28 September 2008 08:22 PM
quote: Originally posted by bagkitty: Extreme right wing parties win the Austrian election.
Not quite. Television projections of seats: Socialists SPÖ 58, down from 68 Moderate Conservatives ÖVP 50, down from 66 Heinz-Christian Strache FPÖ 35, up from 21 Joerg Haider BZÖ 21, up from 7 Greens 19, down from 21 Total 183Preliminary official results from Sunday's poll show Social Democrats with 29.7% of the vote. quote:
The conservative People's Party, which had been in a faltering coalition with the Social Democrats that collapsed after 18 months, won 25.6%.The far-right Freedom Party had won 18.01% of the vote and the Alliance for the Future of Austria had 10.98%. The far-right showing was its strongest since 2000, when the Freedom Party won 28% and gained a place in the coalition government with the conservatives. Final results will not be released until 6 October after absentee and postal ballots, making up about 10% of the votes, are counted.
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