A far-right Austrian party won 42 percent of the vote in an election in the nation’s southern province of Carinthia. But because the xenophobic Freedom Party won less than a majority, it remained unclear whether its leader, Jorg Haider, would get enough support from other parties to become provincial governor. Haider was voted out of that office in 1991 after he praised Hitler’s “decent employment policies.”
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