AUSTRIA'S ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz has clearly won the 2019 election with heavy defeats for the centre-left Social Democrats. However, Mr Kurz will now have to forge a coalition to be able to rule. Here are the latest results and reactions.
By GEORGINA LAUD
PUBLISHED: 02:52, Mon, Sep 30, 2019 | UPDATED: 12:42, Mon, Sep 30, 2019
Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz's party has emerged as the clear winner of Sunday's snap parliamentary election. His Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) scored slightly higher than expected -0 raking in 38.4 percent of the vote against the SPO (Social Democrats) on 21.5 percent. The ex-chancellor will now return to the forefront of politics just four months after he was ousted - and he has some tough choices to make going forward. Now the politician must assess several options for a coalition partner that will give it a stable majority.
Austria, which has a population of 8.8 million, has been run by a non-partisan interim administration appointed in June, after the publication of a video showing Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache appearing to offer favours to a purported Russian investor triggered the Kurz government's collapse.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1184185/austria-election-2019-results-exit-polls-conservative-sebastian-kurz-peoples-party
