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The first victory of a far-right party in Austria’s post-war history is an “alarming” development for Europe, according to the International Auschwitz Committee. A media projection has given the populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) a clear lead in Sunday’s poll, with 29.2% of the vote, well ahead of the conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) of the outgoing coalition government. “For Holocaust survivors, the first projections for the national elections in Austria and above all the strengthening of the extreme right around Herbert Kickl and the FPÖ add an alarming new chapter to their fe…

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