Now it’s official: the right-wing populists are the winners of a parliamentary election in Austria for the first time. The previous governing parties are losers.
The right-wing FPÖ won the Austrian parliamentary election with 29.2 percent of the vote. The Interior Ministry announced this in the preliminary final result. The previous chancellor’s party ÖVP was pushed into second place with 26.5 percent of the votes. The conservative ÖVP lost 11 percentage points compared to the previous election in 2019, while the FPÖ gained 13 points.
The third strongest force in the National Council, the largest chamber of parliament, will be the social democratic SPÖ with 21.1 percent (-0.1). The Liberal Neos received 9 percent of the votes (+0.9). The Greens, who previously governed with the Conservatives, only got 8 percent this time (-5.9). Small parties such as the Beer Party or the communist KPÖ remained well below the 4 percent hurdle that would be necessary to enter parliament. The preliminary final result includes the majority of postal votes. The remaining absentee ballots are expected to be counted by Thursday. The Foresight Institute’s projections assume that the values of the right-wing and conservative parties will ultimately be slightly lower, while the left-wing and liberal spectrum can hope for a few additional tenths of a percentage point.
Source: Stern
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