Women save Austria from the extreme right by mass voting for Van der Bellen

The feminine vote has been decisive in transferring the Austrian Presidency away from the extreme right. In response to the survey carried out by ORF public tv, 62% of Austrian ladies voted for the Europeanist and environmentalist candidate Alexander Van der Bellen, in contrast with 38% who did so for the chief of the far-right Norbert Hofer.

The vote of ladies was very completely different from that of males. In response to the identical supply, 56% of them selected Norbert Hofer, chief of the extreme right in opposition to 44%, who most popular to vote for the European candidate.

Van der Bellen's win with benefit

With 78% of the scrutiny carried out, the unbiased Alexander Van der Bellen has received the Austrian presidential elections with 53.3% of the votes, in comparison with 46.7% of his rival. Norbert Hofer, candidate of the extreme right, has acknowledged defeat.

The followers of Van der Bellen, who in the previous was the chief of the greens, have reacted with pleasure in the middle the place they’re gathered in Vienna.

The choice of the Austrians has been confirmed sooner than anticipated. The specialists anticipated a a lot tighter end result and had the last knowledge on Monday and even Tuesday.

The election permits Van der Bellen to carry the Presidency of the State for the subsequent six years, renewable as soon as for one other six.

The far right admits defeat

The marketing campaign of the Austrian ultra-right chief, Norbert Hofer, has acknowledged his defeat in the Austrian presidential elections held this Sunday, minutes after the knowledge of various projections got here out. “I really feel extraordinarily unhappy,” he stated in his Fb account. “I ask all Austrians to stay united and work collectively,” stated the politician of the Freedom Occasion (FPÖ). He already misplaced the second spherical held in Could, which was later canceled on account of irregularities in the rely.

“I congratulate Alexander Van der Bellen for his victory and name on all Austrians to be supportive and work collectively,” stated Norbert Hofer, the candidate of the Austrian Freedom Occasion (FPÖ), in a message posted on his account. Fb.

The previous college professor, who offered himself as an unbiased, has achieved in a number of constituencies an enchancment of a number of factors in comparison with the second spherical held in Could, in response to partial outcomes which have begun to be revealed since 17 hours.

Alexander Van der Bellen received that last duel by simply over 31,000 votes, at the finish of the scrutiny of the ballots obtained by mail.

A symbolic cost

Though the position of the head of state in Austria is basically protocol, Norbert Hofer and the FPÖ needed that symbolic success for the populist aspect, six months after Brexit and one month after Donald Trump's victory in the United States.

The far-right social gathering hoped to ascertain its presence in the Austrian political panorama and remodel these elections right into a springboard to the govt department of the nation, in the perspective of the legislative deliberate as late for 2018.