Posted on 04/24/2016 3:38:38 PM PDT by Mariner
VIENNA (AFP) -
Austria's government was licking its wounds Monday after a historic debacle that saw the opposition anti-immigrant far-right triumph in a presidential ballot two years before the next scheduled general election.
According to preliminary results, Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party (FPOe) came a clear first with 36 percent of the vote, while candidates from the two governing parties failed to even make it into a runoff on May 22.
The result means that for the first time since 1945, Austria will not have a president backed by either Chancellor Werner Faymann's Social Democrats (SPOe) or their centre-right coalition partners the People's Party (OeVP).
"This is the beginning of a new political era," FPOe leader Heinz-Christian Strache said after what constituted the best-ever result at federal level for the former party of the late Joerg Haider, calling it a "historic result".
The centre-right OeVP's candidate Andreas Khol came equal fourth with 11 percent, level with the SPOe's Rudolf Hundstorfer.
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Okay, thanks for the correction.
I’m certainly not intending to support anti-Jewish elements with my comments, and if I did so unwittingly, then I was wrong to convey that impression.
I have a gut reaction to how normal right wing people are framed around the planet. If they are merely leaning right like us, then fine.
If they go anti-Jewish or other people’s interests based on race, then that is wrong and I wouldn’t support them at all.
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