The “final preliminary results” of the parliamentary elections in Austria have become known. They confirmed the decisive victory of the Austrian Freedom Party. The extreme right won first place in the National Council elections with 28.8 percent for the first time since 1945. BTA reported the information.
On Thursday, the Home Office will officially announce the election results after all postal ballots have been counted, but the likelihood of the result changing is negligible.
The Austrian People’s Party came in second with 26.3 percent, and the Austrian Social Democratic Party scored a record low of 21.1 percent. NEOS is projected to win 9.2 percent, its best result in a national election, while the Greens lost about five percent and collected 8.3 percent.
After 98.6 percent of the ballots have been counted and a margin of error of 0.4 percentage points, the seats in the new parliament will be distributed as follows: the Austrian Freedom Party will have 56 parliamentary seats, the Austrian People’s Party – with 52, the Austrian Social Democratic Party – with 41, NEOS – with 18 and “Greens – Green Alternative” – with 16 seats.
Voter turnout has increased compared to the 2019 vote.
According to the forecasts, including the electoral cards, 78.5 percent of those entitled to vote went to the polls.
In 2019, voter turnout was 75.59 percent.
Political observers are already speculating about possible future coalitions. The Austrian People’s Party and the Austrian Social Democratic Party have said they will not form a coalition with the Austrian Freedom Party led by Herbert Kickle. Kickel has already staked claim to the chancellor post, but the president is not constitutionally required to task him with forming a government.
Kickel, a former interior minister and longtime political strategist who has led the APS since 2021, uses the term Volkskanzler, or translated from German as “people’s chancellor,” which was used by the Nazis for Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. years of the last century. Kickle rejects this comparison.
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