Protesters on the streets of Vienna following elections in which initial results show the far-right Freedom Party of Austria in first place.Credit: Getty Images
He has used the term “Volkskanzler”, or chancellor of the people, which was used by the Nazis to describe Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. Kickl has rejected the comparison.
In its election platform, the party called for “remigration of uninvited foreigners” and for achieving a more “homogeneous” nation by tightly controlling borders and suspending the right to asylum via an “emergency law”.
But to become the country’s new leader, Kickl will now need a coalition partner to command a majority in the lower house of parliament. He said he’d start negotiations straight away. His party was on course to secure about 57 seats in the 183-seat parliament, with the conservatives on 51 and the Social Democrats on 40.
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Publish date : 2024-09-29 19:35:35
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