The far-right candidate in Austria's troubled
presidential election wants the house where Hitler was born demolished as well
as to improve relations with the Jewish community, according to comments
published Sunday.
Austria's hopes of finally electing a new president on October 2 are looking increasingly doubtful because of problems with glue on postal votes coming unstuck.
The far-right presidential candidate has kicked off his election campaign with an interview in which he supports a ban on burkas in Austria, as well as blocking Turkey's proposed EU membership.
The internationally renowned Bregenzer Festspiele has been left with no one to open it - after Austria’s highest court ruled that May's presidential election must be repeated because of widespread procedural "sloppiness".
Austria's Constitutional Court has announced that the country must redo May's presidential election, after a challenge brought by the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) against its candidate's narrow defeat.
Presidential candidate Norbert Hofer calls for an Austrian European Union
referendum if there are no significant reforms in the next year, after Britain
votes to leave the union.
Presidential candidate Norbert Hofer, from the far-right and EU-sceptic Freedom Party, tells journalist Flemming Emil Hansen why he wants the UK to stay in the European Union.
Austria's far-right is probing "countless"
cases of fraud in last week's presidential election that saw its candidate
lose by a narrow margin, the party chief was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Austria's Freedom Party is "stronger than
ever" and ready to win the next general election after its candidate narrowly
failed to become the European Union's first far-right president, party chief
Heinz-Christian Strache said Tuesday.
While far-right parties across Europe hailed
the near-election of one of their own as Austrian president as a boost for
their future prospects, his defeat shows that mainstream forces are still
capable of rallying to keep extremists out of power.
Austria and the European Union were on
tenterhooks Monday as they waited to see whether Norbert Hofer had won an
election runoff to become the bloc's first president from the anti-immigrant
far-right.
In a surprise result, it appears that the Austrian presidential runoff on Sunday is effectively a dead heat, with more than 90% of the vote tallied--until postal votes are counted by Monday.
Austria's presidential runoff, which could see
a far-right candidate grab power this Sunday, is a test for the European Union
as it battles the rise of eurosceptic and populist parties across the
continent.
All eyes will be on Austria this weekend when
it could become the first European Union member to install a far-right
president, as the influence of populist parties spreads across the bloc.
Summer weather will make a brief appearance in Austria this Sunday - in time for the runoff of the presidential election - which sees the far-right Freedom Party’s Norbert Hofer up against the Green-backed candidate Alexander van der Bellen.
When Austria holds elections – especially presidential ones – coverage hardly makes it into the German news. However, this time, the story was slightly different.
Political analyst Dr. Gustav Gressel explains the Austrian political landscape.
Police drove armoured vehicles into Vienna’s Yppenplatz on Sunday, after members of the far-right Identitarian group, who were holding a ‘vigil’ in memory of a woman who was allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant last week, clashed with left-wing activists.
A Kenyan man was remanded in custody in Austria
Friday for an alleged murder that has stoked an already ugly presidential
election campaign dominated by the issue of immigration.
The district of Simmering is archetypal "Red
Vienna", its imposing council housing blocks, named after workers' heroes of
the past, testament to almost a century of state largesse under the left.
The man most likely to be Austria's next president, Norbert Hofer from the far-right Freedom Party, said Thursday he believed the integration of migrants was "possible", in an apparent bid to woo more mainstream voters.
Austria's government was licking its wounds on
Monday after the anti-immigration far-right triumphed in a presidential vote,
a debacle of historic proportions for a cosy political establishment seen as
out of touch and ineffectual.
Austria's far-right has a new golden boy in
the shape of Norbert Hofer, a smooth-talking gun enthusiast who sent shock
waves through the political establishment by defying polls and shooting to the
top in Sunday's first round of a presidential ballot.
