Initial results show Austria tilting right in national vote [View all]

[RandySF]

Initial results showed the party of Austria's 31-year-old foreign minister leading in national elections Sunday, putting him on course to become the youngest head of government in Europe.

Projections from the SORA polling organization showed the People's Party led by Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz receiving 30.5 percent of the vote and the euroskeptic Freedom Party 26. 8 percent of the vote. Both parties had focused their campaigns on concerns about immigration and Islam.

The Social Democrats, who campaigned on the need for social equality, were projected to come third with 26.2 percent of the vote.

While the projections were based on initial results, they could herald a coalition between the two parties that would mean a rightward turn for Austria, now governed by a coalition made up of the Social Democrats and the People's Party.

The parties with the initial lead have called for securing Austria's borders and quickly deporting asylum-seekers whose requests are denied — ideas that appear to have been heard.

The People's Party went into the election with the most support, according to polls, with the Freedom Party second and the Social Democrats third.


https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/15/austria-election-results-projections-show-austria-tilting-right.html