Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz got a boost in his fight to keep his job on S...
VIENNA - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz got a boost in his fight to keep his job on Sunday with a projection showing his conservative party coming a clear first in the European Parliament election despite a scandal involving the far right.
Kurz’s coalition with the far-right Freedom Party collapsed after a video sting forced FPO leader and Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache to step down last weekend. The projection put Kurz’s People’s Party on 34.5%, the Social Democrats on 23.5% and the far-right FPO in third place on 17.5%. The projection showed the Greens came in fourth on 13.5%, a leap from the last parliamentary election, in which they failed to make the 4% threshold for entering the assembly, but 1 percentage point less than in the last European election in 2014.
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