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Austria: Far-Right Candidate Tops 1st Round of Presidential Elections

HeadlineApr 25, 2016

In Austria, a far-right candidate has won the first round of the presidential elections after running on an anti-immigrant campaign focusing on the arrival of refugees. It was the best result to date for the far-right Freedom Party in a national election. The party’s candidate will face a Green party-backed candidate in a runoff in May.

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