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Van der Bellen is re-elected president in Austria with over 78% of the vote
2022-10-10 10:55:29 / KOSOVA
In Austria, the current president Alexander Van der Bellen has won the presidential elections. The six co-contenders for the state's highest post are far behind in votes.
According to the calculations of the SORA Institute for the Austrian public television ORF, the 78-year-old Van der Bellen received over 78 percent of the votes. Thus, the current president of Austria is re-elected with an absolute majority, which is necessary in the first round of presidential elections to be elected. Now there is no need for a runoff election.
All the other presidential candidates are far behind Van der Bellen in votes. The second-placed candidate of the right-wing populist party FPÖ, Walter Rosenkranz, received 18 percent of the vote. While the other candidates score single-digit quotas. The official result is expected to be announced on Monday (10.10), because the votes sent by mail are also expected to be counted.
Representative task
The president in Austria mainly has the duties of representing the country and is elected every six years. Never before have there been so many presidential candidates as this time. Besides Van der Bellen, there were six other candidates, four of whom were from right-wing parties and all men.
In Austria, until now, all the presidents who have run for a second term have been re-elected. 78-year-old Van der Bellen sees no problem with his old age. This post gives you strength, said the former chairman of Austria's ecological party during the vote.
The conservative ÖVP and the social democratic parties gave up presenting their candidates. Their argument was that in the electoral campaign against the current president they would have no chance of winning and the parties would rather save the campaign money./DW
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