Herbert Kickl’s Freedom Party (FPÖ) obtained 29.1% of the vote, after half of the ballots were counted. But the party boss is far from assured of accessing the chancellery or even the government, because no party wants to build a coalition with him.
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The far right achieved historic success in the legislative elections in Austria on Sunday September 29, according to projections based on the counting of more than half of the votes, but without guarantee of being able to govern.
Herbert Kickl’s Freedom Party (FPÖ) obtained 29.1% of the vote, a jump of thirteen points compared to the 2019 election, after half of the ballots were counted. But the party boss is far from assured of accessing the chancellery or even the government, because no party wants to build a coalition with him.
An attitude that he regretted on Sunday evening, reacting to the results. Facing the message “very clear” addressed in the ballot boxes, “we are reaching out to all parties”he said on the public channel ORF, regretting that his voters were treated like “second class citizens”. Opposite, Chancellor Karl Nehammer, leader of the conservatives (ÖVP), noted the “disappointment” of his troops facing defeat (26.3%). “We have not managed to catch up with” the extreme right”he regretted in front of a somber audience.