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Austrian Elections 2013: Government Punished by the Voters
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Published: September 29, 2013; 20:54 ♦ (Vindobona)
The two governing parties SPÖ and ÖVP have reached their worst results ever. Nevertheless, nothing will change in Austria.
Austrian Elections 2013: Government Punished by the Voters / Picture: © Flickr / The Austrian Foreign Ministry
Despite substantial losses for the governing social democrats and their coalition partner ÖVP, the “grand coalition” will persist.
With 26.6% of the votes, SPÖ still ranks first. In total, SPÖ lost about 2.3 percentage points. The conservative coalition partner ÖVP reached 24.0% of the votes, which is also the worst result in the party´s history.
ÖVP is followed…
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