Norbert Hofer, who is expected to be formally elected on Saturday to lead Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) into national elections, has gained a reputation as the party's friendly face in contrast to some of its firebrands.
Austria's far-right Freedom Party said it has struck a "cooperation pact" with the party of Russian President
Vladimir Putin, who is courting populist movements across Europe in an anti-EU campaign.
The head of Austria's anti-immigrant far-right Freedom Party says he is "optimistic" about the next general elections, even though official results showed the FPÖ lost a presidential runoff by a greater-than-projected 350,000 votes.
The Freedom Party’s Norbert Hofer has failed in his bid to become the EU's first far-right president, losing to the former head of the Greens, Alexander Van der Bellen. But we shouldn't underestimate the FPÖ.
Alexander Van der Bellen, Austria’s president-elect, has said that he wants to be a president for all Austrians and promised to press the government on issues such as labour reform.
Fans affectionately call him "the professor" -- and in the end Alexander Van der Bellen gave a lesson in election campaigning by fighting off the far-right to become Austria's new president.
Austria's Freedom Party conceded defeat Sunday
in its bid to elect Europe's first far-right president, as projections showed
its candidate Norbert Hofer lagging behind in a bitterly fought election
re-run.
In a long and hard-fought election battle which dragged on months longer than normal, and which drew significant international interest, the far-right candidate, Norbert Hofer, appears to have lost his bid to be president, according to exit polls.
Fans affectionally call him "the professor" or "Sascha", a nickname for Alexander that nods to his Russian roots, while his critics decry him as a "green dictator".
Austrians returned to the polls on Sunday in a bitterly fought marathon election, which could propel the European Union's first far-right president to power and boost the anti-establishment tide sweeping many countries.
Austria's long and ugly presidential campaign
drew to a close Saturday, with a confident far-right aiming to emulate Donald
Trump and Brexit campaigners by dealing a hammer-blow to Vienna's centrist
establishment.
Just a few days before Austrians vote in the re-run of the presidential election, the far-right candidate Norbert Hofer has told other politicians from the Freedom Party (FPÖ) to avoid wearing a blue cornflower in their buttonholes.
The two candidates in Austria's longest ever presidential race clashed on Sunday over the European Union, Donald Trump, and migrants as they faced off in a TV duel a week before the runoff.
Austria is one Europe's richest countries, yet
the hills are alive not with optimism but with worries about the economy,
boosting the far-right candidate ahead of December 4's presidential election.
Several top Austrian conservatives on Saturday
urged voters to shun far-right candidate Norbert Hofer in next month's
presidential election, highlighting fears he could take the country out of the
EU.
Prosperous, pretty and almost migrant-free -- rural Austria paradoxically offers a happy hunting ground for far-right presidential candidate Norbert Hofer and his populist Freedom Party.
The Organisation for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) is sending a small team of election observers to the rerun of Austria's presidential election.
Could Donald Trump’s shock victory in the US presidential elections have repercussions for the re-run of Austria’s presidential election on December 4th?
The leader of Austria’s right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ), Heinz Christian Strache, is urging Austrian citizens of Serbian descent to vote for the FPÖ’s Norbert Hofer in the presidential election on December 4th.
Austrian church officials have denounced far-right presidential candidate Norbert Hofer for "instrumentalising" God in a new slogan as he seeks to rally support ahead of a scandal-plagued election re-run.
The far-right candidate in Austria's upcoming
presidential election won 1,000 euros ($1,120) in damages Friday from a man
who posted a fake image of him with a Hitler moustache on social media.
Austria's far-right presidential candidate Norbert Hofer says he wants a broader Visegrad group of central European countries that would have a stronger voice within the EU.
