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The conservative party of incumbent Austrian chancellor Karl Nehammer is renewing its pledge not to collaborate with the far-right party now projected to claim a historic win in parliamentary elections. “That was the case yesterday, it is the case today and it will still be the case tomorrow,” Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) General Secretary Christian Stocker said after a media projection put the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) in first place. FPÖ General Secretary Michael Schnedlitz said “Austrians have made history today” and argued the election result showed a “demand for a change i…

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