Victory for Austrian (centre left) opposition

[muriel_volestrangler]

Austria's opposition Social Democrats have won a surprise election victory, defeating Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel's People's Party.

With all but absentee ballots counted, the centre-left Social Democrats won 35.7% of the vote, narrowly beating the the People's Party at 34.2%.
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Before the vote, opinion polls had suggested a narrow victory for Mr Schuessel's party.

About 400,000 postal votes have still be to be counted and that could affect the final results, in particular, for the Greens and the Alliance for the Future of Austria.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5396060.stm

[sweetheart]

1. Viva la france

liberte, fraternite, egaletie *(however the fuck you spell it.)

[arcos]

5. hmm... this was Austria, not France... nt

[sweetheart]

6. whatever europe

between london and chernobl, people did some stuff.

[mom cat]

8. LOL!

[bluestateguy]

2. The Left wins!

Even as the Greens tried to ruin it.

[Hav]

3. .

Why ruin it? It might be a coalition of the Social Democrats and the Greens.

[xchrom]

4. woo-hoo!

:woohoo:

[Jack Rabbit]

7. Yes!!

Defeat Bush at home and defeat his stooges abroad!!

[Malikshah]

9. No Anschluss here, Merkel. Too bad, so sad....NOT.

:)

[zwielicht]

10. still to close to call

there's a small chance that Haider's party (now at 4.20%) falls below 4% after the postal votes are counted, which would make a Social Democrats-green-coalition quite likely, otherwise it will be grand coalition madness again..

Well I'm very happy, at least the dark chancellor "hush" Schussel is gone!! :woohoo:

And I'm very proud of Vienna today: The greens came first in a number of districts, and they are bigger than Schussel's "soft" racist party in most parts of the town :applause: