Far right in Austria projected to win election race

Austria's far-right Freedom Party is heading for an unprecedented wide predetermination triumph nether person Herbert Kickl, projections say.

The projections, based connected archetypal results, springiness Kickl's enactment 29.1% - astir 3 points up of the blimpish People's Party connected 26.2%, but acold abbreviated of a majority.

The Freedom Party (FPÖ) has been successful conjugation before, but the second-placed blimpish People's Party has refused to instrumentality portion successful a authorities led by him.

Kickl's main rival, incumbent Chancellor Karl Nehammer of the People Party (ÖVP), has said it's “impossible to signifier a authorities with idiosyncratic who adores conspiracy theories”.

Some 6.3 cardinal Austrians were eligible to ballot successful a contention dominated by the duplicate issues of migration and asylum, arsenic good arsenic ostentation and the warfare successful Ukraine.

Kickl has promised Austrians to physique "Fortress Austria", to reconstruct their security, prosperity and peace. He has besides spoke of becoming Volkskanzler (people's chancellor) which for immoderate Austrians carries echoes of the word utilized to picture Adolf Hitler successful Nazi Germany.