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Elections in Austria: votes have been counted - Van der Bellen can probably avoid the runoff election

2022-10-10T03:16:52.016Z


Elections in Austria: votes have been counted - Van der Bellen can probably avoid the runoff election Created: 10/10/2022 5:10 am By: Magdalena Furthauer Austria elected its federal president on Sunday. Alexander van der Bellen is likely to remain in office. The news ticker. Presidential election in Austria : Seven candidates stood for election. Election extrapolation in Austria: All votes hav


Elections in Austria: votes have been counted - Van der Bellen can probably avoid the runoff election

Created: 10/10/2022 5:10 am

By: Magdalena Furthauer

Austria elected its federal president on Sunday.

Alexander van der Bellen is likely to remain in office.

The news ticker.

  • Presidential election

    in

    Austria

    : Seven candidates stood for election.

  • Election extrapolation

    in Austria: All votes have been counted except for the absentee ballots, incumbent Alexander Van der Bellen will probably remain in office.

  • First reactions

    from the challenger van der Bellens: Walter Rosenkranz (FPÖ) is

    "satisfied"

    with second place .

  • This

    news ticker

    for the

    presidential election in Austria

    is continuously updated.

Update from October 9, 9:35 p.m .:

The time has come, all the votes cast in Austria on Sunday have been counted.

Only the election cards can shift the results by a few percentage points.

In the meantime, van der Bellen's predecessor, Heinz Fischer, has also congratulated the former Green Party politician.

Predecessor Heinz Fischer (left) congratulates Alexander van der Bellen (right).

© HANS KLAUS TECHT / APA / AFP

Election projection in Austria: 100% of the votes counted - Van der Bellen should remain in office

According to ORF and the Sora-Institute, Alexander van der Bellen will get 56.2% of the votes according to their extrapolation and will therefore probably no longer have to go into the runoff election for the office of Austrian Federal President.

The only question that remains open is who will take third place - the

Krone

columnist Tassilo Wallentin or the head of the beer party Dominik Wlazny.

candidate

Van der Bellen

Rosary (FPÖ)

gross

Bruner (MFG)

Staudinger

Wallentin

Wlazny (Beer Party)

extrapolation

56.2%

17.9%

5.5%

2.1%

1.5%

8.3%

8.4%

Source: ORF/SORA, 100% count, fluctuation range at 1.0%;

As of 9 p.m

Meanwhile, an Election Day poll commissioned by broadcaster ATV found that the under-29s voted significantly less than the 60-plus generation.

Overall turnout is 65.9%.

In addition, Alexander van der Bellen got his vote mainly from the voters of the governing parties ÖVP and Greens, as well as from the Neos and SPÖ voters.

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Austria elections: According to projections, Alexander van der Bellen leads by a large margin - but still not a "gmaht'e Wiese"

Update from October 9th, 7:05 p.m .:

In the meantime, the alleged election winner Alexander van der Bellen has also arrived in the ORF studio.

"It's really a great evening for me, believe me," he says, visibly relieved.

The Austrian federal presidential election was not at all a "gmaht'e meadow", you have to take every election seriously.

There have never been so many candidates and the political environment has never been "so tense".

He is all the more pleased with the result, even if the absolute majority is not as clear as in previous federal presidential elections, said van der Bellen.

Tomorrow he would "sleep in first", he lets know with a smile.

Alexander van der Bellen is visibly relieved about the outcome of the Austrian election.

© HELMUT FOHRINGER / APA / AFP

Meanwhile, the result is becoming clearer, as of 6:42 p.m. 95.4% of the votes have been counted.

According to the Sora Institute, voter turnout is 65.8%, which is around seven percentage points behind the voter turnout in the last run-off of the Austrian presidential election in 2016.

Austria election: There is cheering at Alexander van der Bellen's election party

Update from October 9th, 6.35 p.m

.: There is currently no statement on the election result from the apparent winner of the election, Alexander van der Bellen.

Only on his Twitter account is a picture with a handwritten "Thank you!" Meanwhile, there is cheering at his election party in Vienna, and Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler (Greens) is also "very satisfied" with the likely re-election of van der Bellen.

There is cheering at Alexander van der Bellen's election party.

© IMAGO/Martin Juen/SEPA.Media

The other party leaders - except for the FPÖ - congratulate the current Austrian President.

Beate Meinl-Reisinger (Neos) even says in the ORF interview that she is happy that there will be no more runoff elections.

Initial reactions from challengers van der Bellens: Rosenkranz "satisfied" with second place

Update from October 9th, 5.50 p.m .:

The first reactions of the challenger Alexander van der Bellens are gradually being broadcast on Austrian television.

FPÖ candidate Walter Rosenkranz is satisfied because he has currently won second place, as was predicted in advance.

Former BZÖ politician Gerald Grosz sees a blow to the "political establishment" despite van der Bellen's election victory.

An incumbent has never done “as badly as this one”.

Tassilo Wallentin, currently in fourth place, has not yet commented on his election result in the Austrian presidential election.

The MFG press spokesman sees a success for the party candidate Brunner, who is probably "the only candidate without genetic engineering vaccination".

According to his own statement, last place finisher Heinrich Staudinger wants to continue fighting for “a new, responsible lifestyle.” Dominik Wlazny from the Bier-Party, on the other hand, is “extremely satisfied” with his result.

He was able to mobilize young people and this is the core of democracy.

Meanwhile, van der Bellen's gap to his challengers is increasing.

First election projection in Austria: Van der Bellen with more than half of the votes

Update from October 9th, 5:10 p.m .:

Now have

the last polling stations in Austria were also closed.

For a few minutes there has been the first projection from the Sora Institute, which indicates that the incumbent van der Bellen will not have to face a runoff election.

Alexander van der Bellen should remain Austria's Federal President.

© IMAGO/Isabelle Ouvrard/SEPA.Media

This first extrapolation of the Austrian elections was presented on ORF.

Currently, around 57 percent of the votes have been counted, the fluctuation range is 2.1 percent.

According to this, incumbent Alexander van der Bellen received 54.6 percent of the votes.

Due to the current range of fluctuation, only a counting error could prevent van der Bellen from winning.

"The choice is made," said ORF moderator Tarek Leitner.

Election in Austria: Polls see van der Bellen in front - no woman as a candidate

Update from October 9, 4:10 p.m.:

Most polling stations in Austria have been closed since 4 p.m., and votes can be cast in Vienna and Innsbruck for another hour.

Meanwhile, the ORF is discussing who could be the next Federal President.

Eva Linsinger, deputy editor-in-chief of

Profil

magazine , would consider a runoff election to be a "very big surprise".

Her colleague Petra Stuiber from

Standard

is also of the opinion that Alexander van der Bellen will probably get an absolute majority in the first ballot.

Current surveys on the Austrian elections confirm this thesis and predict between 56-58 percent of the votes for the incumbent van der Bellen.

In the ORF interview, the journalists also discuss why not a single woman is on the ballot paper in the current federal presidential election.

“Women want to be asked,” Stuiber sums up.

In the last election in 2016, Irmgard Griss, former President of the Supreme Court, was the only woman to stand and narrowly missed the runoff with 19 percent of the vote.

Austria election: incumbent van der Bellen is optimistic

Update from October 9, 1:30 p.m .:

In the election of the Federal President in Austria, incumbent Alexander Van der Bellen was optimistic and relaxed.

"Of course I hope that things will turn out well," said the 78-year-old when he voted in Vienna together with his wife Doris Schmidauer and, according to the daily newspaper

Österreich

, spoke of a "day of democracy".

With a view to the results of the election, he wished for “clarity” today.

But even a runoff between the two best-placed would not be a broken leg from his point of view.

"That's democracy," he said.

Then he would be in good spirits in four weeks.

When asked by a journalist, he emphasized that he definitely had the necessary energy for another term in office.

"Otherwise I wouldn't be here," emphasized Van der Bellen and added: "I think you underestimate how much energy the office gives you."

Presidential election in Austria: Van der Bellen calls on his supporters to vote

Update from October 9th, 8.30 a.m .:

The election of the Federal President began in Austria with the opening of the first polling stations.

Around 6.4 million citizens aged 16 and over are called upon to nominate the future head of state.

The clear favorite is incumbent Alexander Van der Bellen.

According to polls, the former leader of the Greens should get more than 50 percent of the votes.

According to a report in the daily newspaper

Österreich

, people in the SPÖ and ÖVP are also behind the scenes "sure that Van der Bellen will make it in the first ballot".

Thanks to this absolute majority, the 78-year-old would be elected immediately for the next six years and would not have to go to a runoff.

Shortly before the election, Van der Bellen called on his supporters to vote again.

On the official Twitter page of his candidacy it was said that the election was anything but "a mahte Wiesn".

Van der Bellen himself emphasized in an attached message that on election Sunday "the sofa and comfort" were the biggest opponents.

"Therefore please no inertia on October 9th!

Go vote!” was his urgent appeal.

Presidential election in Austria - Alexander Van der Bellen clear favourite

First report from October 9th:

Vienna/Munich – Will Alexander Van der Bellen come back in a runoff election on October 9th before he possibly becomes Federal President of Austria for a second time?

The former head of the Greens has six competitors who also want to take office for the next six years.

The interesting thing: Only one of them - Walter Rosenkranz - is a representative of one of the current parliamentary parties.

Presidential election in Austria: seven candidates compete

In addition to the FPÖ politician Rosenkranz, the right-wing spectrum includes the former MP and current blogger Gerald Grosz and the lawyer Tassilo Wallentin, who is a columnist for the mass newspaper

Kronen Zeitung

.

Also Michael Brunner, head of the “Menschen Freiheit Grundrechte” (MFG) party, which is dedicated to fighting corona measures.

Dominik Wlazny and Heinrich Staudinger want to score points in the left-wing and environmentally-minded voter segment.

Wlazny, known as "Marco Pogo", is a rock musician and active in Vienna's city politics with his beer party.

Staudinger is a shoe manufacturer.

FPÖ with candidate Rosenkranz: Are "massively on the upswing"

In the summer before the Austrian elections, Rosenkranz was calm about the turbulence within the party.

The trigger for the turbulence was the former FPÖ MP Hans-Jörg Jenewein, a veteran of the FPÖ.

The Viennese FPÖ was confronted with an anonymous complaint about the misuse of funding.

"It will have no impact," Rosencrantz said.

And FPÖ General Secretary Michael Schnedlitz.

reiterated that his party was "on the upswing" and was starting the election campaign with full force.

In the elections in the state of Tyrol, the right-wing populists had recently increased significantly - not least in electoral districts near the German border.

Election poll in Austria: Alexander Van der Bellen in front

In 2016, Van der Bellen received 53.8 percent of the votes in a runoff against FPÖ challenger Norbert Hofer.

According to a survey by the magazine

Profil

and the broadcaster ATV, he can count on almost two-thirds of the votes in 2022.

The right-wing FPÖ candidate is trailing behind at 13 percent.

Almost 6.4 million Austrians are entitled to vote.

The head of state in Austria is vested with great powers.

(dpa/AFP/frs)

Source: merkur

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