Austrian far-right party wins first round of presidential election

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/24/austrian-far-right-wins-first-round-presidential-election-norbert-hofer
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Austria’s anti-immigration far right has triumphed in the first round of the presidential election, with candidates from the two governing parties failing to even make it into a runoff vote next month.

Norbert Hofer of the Freedom party (FPOe) won 36.7% of the vote, followed by Alexander Van der Bellen backed by the Greens on 19.7% and independent candidate Irmgard Griss on 18.8%, projections showed.

From the governing coalition, Rudolf Hundstorfer from the Social Democrats (SPOe) came joint fourth with just 11.2%, level with Andreas Khol from the People’s party (OeVP).

The result means that, for the first time since 1945, Austria will not have a president backed by either the SPOe or OeVP.

Support for the two parties has been sliding for years and in the last general election in 2013 they only just garnered enough support to re-form Chancellor Werner Faymann’s grand coalition.

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1. a right wing Austrian in power?

What could go wrong?

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2. He could hook up with Trump

Seriously it is scary.