Austria’s xenophobic Freedom Party appears to have won second place in Sunday’s general election. Preliminary results showed the Freedom Party with 27.2 percent of the vote, up from 22 percent in the last election in 1995, the best showing by a far-right party in Europe since the end of World War II.
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