Austria votes in snap parliamentary poll, conservatives seen heading new coalition

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Austrians vote on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election that conservative leader Sebastian Kurz looks set to win, but he will still need a ...

VIENNA: Austrians vote on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election that conservative leader Sebastian Kurz looks set to win, but he will still need a coalition partner to secure a majority and it remains unclear whom he will pick.

But the overall picture since the scandal's immediate aftermath has been remarkably stable. Opinion polls have generally shown Kurz's People's Party far ahead on roughly a third of the vote, the Social Democrats slightly ahead of the FPO and the Greens a distant fourth. Kurz has said he will talk to all parties after the election if he wins. His two most likely options are either to ally with the FPO again or with the Greens and liberal Neos. A centrist coalition with the Social Democrats is possible but unlikely under their current leadership.Surveys suggest the environment is voters' top concern, which has helped the Greens surge from less than 4per cent in the last election in 2017, when they crashed out of parliament, to around 13 per cent now.

 

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