Swings to the left more and more - here comes the corresponding swing to the far right. From Yahoo News/Agence France Presse:
Austria on knife-edge as presidential race too close to call
Austrian far-right hopes of winning a presidential runoff remained on hold Sunday as the candidates were neck-and-neck in a battle closely watched by the EU, which is struggling to contain a surge of anti-immigrant parties.
A win would see Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party (FPOe) become the European Union's first far-right head of state.
On Sunday evening, the vote was evenly split between Hofer of the Freedom Party (FPOe) and Green-backed economics professor Alexander van der Bellen, with both on 50.0 according to projections based on almost all the votes cast at polling stations Sunday.
And what could be the reason?
A huge influx of asylum-seekers, rising unemployment and frozen reforms has driven voters away from the two centrist parties that have dominated Austrian politics since 1945.
Expanded social services for outsiders who are not assimilating into the Austrian culture. Where have we seen this before? Hmmm...
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