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Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen secured a second six-year term in office by winning more than 50% of the vote in an election on Sunday to avoid a runoff, according to initial projections issued soon after voting closed.

Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen waves outside the polling station during presidential elections in Vienna, Austria, October 9, 2022.Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen waves outside the polling station during presidential elections in Vienna, Austria, October 9, 2022.

Neither of the main centrist parties fielded candidates in the election, and senior figures from both backed Van der Bellen, a 78-year-old former leader of the Greens. The far-right Freedom Party was the only party in parliament to put forward a candidate against the president. A projection by pollster SORA for national broadcaster ORF, based on a partial count of 64.8% of votes, put Van der Bellen at 55.4% with a margin of error of 1.9 percentage points. His nearest rival was the Freedom Party’s Walter Rosenkranz at 18.4%.

Initial projections in Austria, based on the count from the polling stations that closed earlier in the day, have proved reliable in the past. The last polling stations to close include those in the cities of Vienna and Innsbruck.

 

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And how old is the President, mmhhh?

How old is he? Just asking.

He’s so old… Where are the young ones?

Where in Africa is Austria? 🤔

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