by Nina LAMPARSKI VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — The two candidates in Austria’s longest ever presidential race clashed Sunday over the European Union, Donald Trump, and migrants as they faced off in a TV duel a week before the runoff. Greens-backed contender Alexander Van der Bellen accused his far-right rival Norbert Hofer of stirring insecurity by threatening to pull Austria out of the EU. Hofer of the anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPOe) has said he would call […]
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Austrian government in shock as far-right triumphs
https://youtu.be/t5qqc0TSDBU by Simon Sturdee VIENNA, Austria (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 […]





