The Freedom Party is set to win a national election for the first time in its history as it taps into voters' anxieties about immigration, inflation and the war in Ukraine.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00Voting is underway in Austria's parliamentary election, with the far-right Freedom Party
00:07tipped to win in what would be their first ever election victory.
00:12They've campaigned on an Austria-first platform, but if the party fails to secure an outright
00:17majority, finding coalition partners might be tricky.
00:22Polling second is the conservative Austrian People's Party, led by incumbent Chancellor
00:26Karl Nehammer.
00:29At his campaign rally, he ruled out a coalition with the Freedom Party, and urged supporters
00:34to vote for him to prevent the far-right from coming to power.
00:40The social democratic party headed by Andreas Babler are polling in third place, and have
00:45also ruled out teaming up with the Freedom Party, calling them a threat to democracy.
00:51Rounding out the top five are the liberal NAOS party, who are neck and neck with junior
00:55coalition partner The Greens.
00:59For more UN videos visit www.un.org
Recommended
Austrian Freedom Party Makes History with Shocking Election Win: What This Means for Europe?
Oneindia
Biden and Xi hold talks in Peru but no mention of North Korean troops in Russia
euronews (in English)