A projection for ORF public television, based on counting of more than half the votes, put support for the Freedom Party at 29.2% and Chancellor Karl Nehammer's Austrian People's Party at 26.3%.
Austria 's far-right Freedom Party was headed for its first win in a national parliamentary election on Sunday, finishing ahead of the governing conservatives after tapping into voters' anxieties about immigration, inflation, Ukraine and other concerns, a projection showed. But its chances of governing were unclear.A projection for ORF public television, based on counting of more than half the votes, put support for the Freedom Party at 29.
Kickl has achieved a turnaround since Austria's last parliamentary election in 2019. In June, the Freedom Party narrowly won a nationwide vote for the first time in the European Parliament election, which also brought gains for other European far-right parties. The party is a long-established political force but Sunday's projected result, if confirmed, would be its best yet in a national parliamentary election — beating the 26.9% it scored in 1999.In 2019, its support slumped to 16.
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