The match ultranationalist FPÖ won the parliamentary elections this Sunday for the first time in Austria, by achieving 29% of the votesaccording to the first projections based on real votes, which place them even ahead of the conservative ÖVP, which obtained 26%.
The one known as Austrian Freedom Party has thus risen 13 points compared to its 2019 results, with an anti-immigration message and critical of the measures taken by the current Governmentformed by conservatives and environmentalists, to control the pandemic of the Covid-19.
The Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), which heads the outgoing Executive, has lost 11 points since the last elections. According to this first calculation, which uses the actual vote as a basis, the social democrat SPÖ would be the third forcewith 20.4% of the votes, losing 0.8 points.
According to these projections, the liberal party would also enter Parliament Neos (8.8%) and The Greens (8.6%) who have been the minority partner of the Popular Party in the Government, and who now lose more than five points.
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