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The Freedom Party of Austria won Austria’s legislative election on 29 September. Yet as Reinhard Heinisch explains, it will be challenging for the party to form a viable government.
Austria’s parliamentary elections were a watershed. For the first time in the country’s democratic history, the populist far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) came first in a national election, beating the two parties that founded and long dominated Austria, the Christian conservative People’s Party (ÖVP) and the Social Democrats…