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The far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has won Austria’s parliamentary election with 29.2% of the vote, according to preliminary official results announced by the Interior Ministry. The conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) of the outgoing coalition government was pushed into second place with 26.5% of the vote. The ÖVP lost 11% compared to the 2019 election, while the FPÖ gained 13 percentage points after being booted from government in a 2019 corruption scandal. The Social Democrats (SPÖ) secured the third highest number of votes with 21.1% (down 0.1 points), according to the prel…

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