Austria if "right". Sebastian Kurz, leader of the Övp conservative party of only 31 years, is about to become the new Austrian Chancellor. Also the formation of Far Right Fpö, by Heinz-Christian Strache, with which Kurz could form a coalition. According to the projections, the second place would remain for SPE Social Democrats, led by the outgoing Chancellor Christian Kern. To establish with certainty the attribution of second and third place, however, it will be necessary to wait for the completion of the count, and in particular the calculation of the votes by post. The projections of the Sora institute, with 86,2% of the votes counted, give the Övp in the lead at 31,6%; followed by the Social Democrats at 26,9% and then the FPÖ at 26%. From the data it emerges therefore how much the attribution of the second place is in the balance, also considering that the projection has a margin of error of 0,8%. The FPÖ does not reach the record result of 26,9% it achieved in 1999, but it still has a good chance of returning to government for the first time in more than 10 years: with Social Democrats and Conservatives at loggerheads, in fact, the formation of ultra right will probably be the tip of the balance. However, its leader Strache, who accused Kurz of having stolen and plagiarized the ideas of his party during the election campaign, refused to let himself be carried away immediately: “Everything is possible,” Orf told TV. “We are happy with this great success and one thing is clear: around 60% of the Austrian population voted for the FPÖ program,” he added. And Kurz himself wanted to leave several possibilities open: “I would certainly like to form a stable government. If this is not possible, there are other options ", he told the same broadcaster, clarifying that he intends to speak with all the parties present in Parliament but that he will first wait for the counting of the votes by correspondence, which begins tomorrow. immigration, Kurz has effectively stolen from FPÖ its real workhorse, which it had pushed on the wave of the migration crisis in Europe. In an Austria that was a transit route for migrants headed to Germany and that in 2015 welcomed asylum seekers equal to about 1% of its population (made up of 8,7 million people), the strategy seems to have worked : both parties, i.e. both the Övp and the FPÖ have improved their results compared to the last parliamentary elections in 2013. “Thank you very much for the trust. Today is not a triumph over others, but an opportunity for change. We take responsibility with great humility, "said Kurz, who without revealing his propensity for coalition talks said that" our goal is to work with everyone else for our country. "Kurz, appointed leader of the his party only in May, was careful to keep coalition options open, but called for an end to the current alliance with the Social Democrats that was in government, leading precisely to today's early elections. And he promised to shake up Austrian politics, dominated by coalitions between Spö and Övp for decades. Although this suggests that a coalition intends to turn to the anti-Islam party FPÖ, it is also true that Kurz has floated the hypothesis of leadership changes in the losing parties, possibly alluding to the desire to work with the Social Democrats if Chancellor Kern is removed from the party leadership for the benefit of Defense Minister Hans Peter Doskozil.
