In a year of surprise elections in Europe and the United States, Austria’s vote on Sunday did not disappoint. But the surprises didn’t come in the form of upsets. Overall, the polls leading up to the election proved to be accurate. As predicted, the center-right People’s Party (ÖVP) led by the baby-faced foreign minister Sebastian Kurz, was the clear winner with 31.5 percent of the vote. And as predicted, the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) beat out the center-left social democrats (SPÖ) to come in second with 27.1 percent. Perhaps the only surprise was that the SPÖ did not follow its …read more
Source: The American Interest
