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Far-right concedes defeat in Austrian presidential election – live
The Guardian ^ | December 4, 2016

Posted on 12/04/2016 9:02:55 AM PST by Pinkbell

The far-right Austrian presidential candidate Norbert Hofer’s campaign manager, Herbert Kickl, has conceded his candidate’s defeat to former Greens leader Alexander Van der Bellen, Reuters reports.

Kickl told the state broadcaster:

The bottom line is it didn’t quite work out. In this case the establishment - which pitched in once again to block, to stonewall and to prevent renewal - has won.

Also:

If confirmed, the margin of Van der Bellen’s forecast win over Hofer in Austria is a major surprise.

Polls in the run-up to the vote had the two candidates neck-and-neck, with several putting the far-right Freedom party’s Hofer ahead. But the first official results, released minutes ago, show the independent with 53.5% of the vote, with Hofer 46.4%.

Interior ministry officials have told the Associated Press that votes obviously continue to be counted and the percentages are therefore almost certain to vary, but the outcome is now unlikely to change.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: austria
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To: s-pd-run

“Green” parties usually are the same tired old leftist demagogues masquerading as people who “care about da erfs and stuffs”.

Welcome to FR.
Please explain how electing job killing socialist ideologues improves anything.


21 posted on 12/04/2016 9:56:40 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Pinkbell

I think he looks a bit like Dan Quayle (when he was younger).


22 posted on 12/04/2016 10:04:49 AM PST by rissole
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To: Shadow44

The globalists will not be denied.


23 posted on 12/04/2016 10:13:24 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: ilovesarah2012
Can anyone tell me what far-right actually means?

Anyone that disagrees with the leftist media.

(And no, I'm not being sarcastic)

24 posted on 12/04/2016 10:17:44 AM PST by justlurking (#TurnOffCNN)
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To: Enchante

they’re not just lemmings, they’re psychotic. ever heard of any animal actively trying to end their own species. this is white leftists. they almost seem giddy in ending Christians and white ones in particular. very bizarre.


25 posted on 12/04/2016 10:19:32 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: justlurking

Seems to be a consensus that disagreeing with libersls makes you far-right.


26 posted on 12/04/2016 10:25:22 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Rennes Templar

That’s my suspicion as well.


27 posted on 12/04/2016 10:27:35 AM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: s-pd-run

28 posted on 12/04/2016 10:28:32 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Pinkbell

So the Tyrannical International Socialists win in Austria.

Austria is a small country and probably a lot easier for the Globalists abroad ( like George Soros) to steal the election.


29 posted on 12/04/2016 10:29:54 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: ilovesarah2012

>Can anyone tell me what far-right actually means?

The MSM definition is anyone that is against clit-cutting, goat roping, pedophile islam and lazy illegals or those who work for a living and pay the taxes that support the aforementioned filth.


30 posted on 12/04/2016 10:41:39 AM PST by soycd
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To: s-pd-run

Please explain how their Green party is good.


31 posted on 12/04/2016 10:55:22 AM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: Pinkbell

Let me guess...

Modern up to date electronic voting?


32 posted on 12/04/2016 10:59:29 AM PST by fella ("As this iiwas before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: dfwgator

A comment so stupid that I quit reading the thread in disgust. C’mon man, step it up a notch or two.


33 posted on 12/04/2016 11:03:27 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Pinkbell

To the press, “the far right” is anyone they dislike. Socialists opposed to Muslim migration are “far right” to them.

The poster boy of the “far right” led the German National Socialist Workers’ Party - Adolph Hitler. I think the media objection may have been the word “National.”

Stalin murdered more people, starting earlier, but he was an INTERNATIONAL socialist, following Lenin and Marx. The New York Times denied his Ukrainian holocaust of 1931-2. For their efforts, they received the Pulitzer Prize.


34 posted on 12/04/2016 11:24:14 AM PST by ChessExpert (It's not compassion when you use government to give other people's money away.)
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To: Squantos

The polls told me everything I need to know when they said Hillary was up by 9% in Utah. We did our job and cleaned her clock in Election 2016. The 27% that voted for her are a joke, they comprise the Salt Lake voters that kept Rocky Anderson as mayor and the Park City limousine liberals that deserve to get hit with a meteorite.


35 posted on 12/04/2016 11:36:33 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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Why are people assuming “Far-Right” means the same thing there as it does here? None of it transfers over. They all gave up their guns over one little shooting anyway.


36 posted on 12/04/2016 11:40:22 AM PST by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

France in the last year has had Bataclan, Nice, and to a lesser extent Calais and regular day-day stuff in Paris and elsewhere.


37 posted on 12/04/2016 11:40:28 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: proust

exactly. this is the compost term. maybe our leftists can move there instead of their threat to move to Canada.


38 posted on 12/04/2016 11:43:29 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: Pinkbell

So the Austrians reply to the migrant flood by replacing their left-leaning president with a radical left winger. European Greens make Jill Stein look sane and are even worse than the ruling Social Democrats (i.e. Socialists).


39 posted on 12/04/2016 11:45:15 AM PST by FenwickBabbitt
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To: lodi90

This is what will happen in France too.
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I don’t agree. France has suffered too much under Hollande. France will go right this time. Only question is how far right. Fillon or LePin.


40 posted on 12/04/2016 11:53:38 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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