Austria's conservatives set to return to power
Far-right party collapses at the polls while the Green Party could go into coalition with Sebastian Kurz
The leader of the conservative Austrian People's Party Sebastian Kurz waves to his supporters in Vienna
AUSTRIAN ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz is poised for a return to power after his conservative People’s Party topped the polls in Sunday’s snap election.
His government collapsed in May in a split with its far-right coalition partner the Freedom Party.
Kurz’s party is expected to get 37.1 per cent of the vote in the parliamentary elections, up 5.7 points compared with 2017, according to projections released by public broadcaster ORF. About 6.4 million Austrians aged 16 and older were eligible to vote. The turnout was 75.5 per cent.
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