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| Conservative Sebastian Kurz on track to become Austria’s next leader | |
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| The young conservative Sebastian Kurz is on track to become Austria’s next leader, projections of Sunday’s parliamentary election result showed, but his party is well short of a majority and could seek an alliance with the far right. | The young conservative Sebastian Kurz is on track to become Austria’s next leader, projections of Sunday’s parliamentary election result showed, but his party is well short of a majority and could seek an alliance with the far right. |
| Kurz’s Austrian People’s party (ÖVP) is in the lead on 30.2%, with its current coalition partner, the Social Democrats, on 26.3%, neck and neck with the far-right Freedom party (FPÖ) on 26.8%, a projection by the pollster SORA said shortly after polls closed, based on an early count of 42% of non-postal ballots. | |
| The projection had a margin of error of 2.4 percentage points. It will be refreshed and become more precise as more ballots are counted throughout the evening. | The projection had a margin of error of 2.4 percentage points. It will be refreshed and become more precise as more ballots are counted throughout the evening. |
| Another projection by pollster ARGE Wahlen also showed the ÖVP in the lead. | Another projection by pollster ARGE Wahlen also showed the ÖVP in the lead. |