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A far-right party has won a parliamentary election in Austria for the first time since the end of World War II, according to a media projection that gives the populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) a clear lead in Sunday’s poll. The right-wing populist party is set to win 29.2% of the vote, putting it well ahead of the conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) of the outgoing coalition government, according to a projection from the Austrian public broadcaster ORF. The projection, based on data from the Foresight Institute for ORF, puts the ÖVP firmly in second at 26.2% – a drop of 11.2 point…

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