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		</div><p>Austria’s conservative ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz looks set for a major election victory in a snap poll called after his coalition government with the far-right Freedom Party collapsed in May.</p>
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<p>Exit polls released by public broadcaster ORF showed Mr Kurz’s Austrian People’s Party projected to get 37.2%, a gain of 5.7 percentage points compared with 2017.</p>
<p>The Freedom Party was forecast to lose 10 points to get 16%, a sign that voters were punishing the party for a video that showed its long-time leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, appearing to offer favours to a purported Russian investor.</p>
<p>The centre-left Social Democrats were projected to lose 4.9 points and poll 22%, the party’s worst result since the Second World War.</p>
<figure id="attachment_140905" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-140905" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-140905" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/71BEEB86-55E4-462D-8A61-6F57FBA1EB5E.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="425" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-140905" class="wp-caption-text">Supporters of Sebastian Kurz celebrate in Vienna</figcaption></figure>
<p>The Alpine country of 8.8 million has been run by a non-partisan interim administration since June, after the video was released.</p>
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<p>About 6.4 million Austrians aged 16 and older were eligible to vote, with pre-election polls forecasting a strong victory for Mr Kurz.</p>
<p>The 33-year-old will have to choose whether his conservative People’s Party will form a fresh coalition with a chastened Freedom Party or team up with the Social Democrats. Both were running neck-and-neck ahead of the vote.</p>
<p>“To go back to the Freedom Party, in the current situation this would be very difficult,” said Peter Hajek, a political analyst, but “the chemistry with the Social Democrats just doesn’t work”.</p>
<p>The Social Democrats, who have led many of post-war Austria’s governing coalitions, have failed to capitalise on the government’s collapse under leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner.</p>
<p>Mr Hajek said other options could see Mr Kurz team up with the Greens, who were forecast to get 14.3% of the vote, and the pro-business Neos, who were expected to get 7.4%. A coalition with just the Greens would also be possible.</p>
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<p>The People’s Party won the 2017 election with 31.5% of the vote, with the Social Democrats taking 26.9% and the Freedom Party 26%.</p>
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