In Austria Parliamentary elections began this Sunday, to which 6.43 million citizens with the right to vote are called and which could end, according to polls, for the first time in the history of the country with a victory for the ultranationalists.
The first polling stations opened at 06:00 local time (04:00 GMT) and the last ones to close will do so at 17:00 local time, when the first projections of the results are expected.
According to the latest polls, the ultranationalist liberal party FPÖwith former Interior Minister Herbert Kickl at the helm, tells a voting intention of 26%one percentage point more than the ruling people’s party ÖVP, winner of the 2019 elections with 37.5%.
Third in the polls goes the social democratic party SPÖ, with 21% of voting intentionahead of the liberal NEOS party, with 12%.
Meanwhile, the environmentalist Greens, partners of the ÖVP in the current government coalition, would reach 8% of the votes, six percentage points less than five years ago.
The electoral campaign was marked first by the nationalist, eurosceptic and xenophobic messages of the FPÖ and then by the serious floods and floods that devastated the eastern part of the country.
The management of this natural disaster by the current federal chancellor, the conservative Karl Nehammer, gave him some strength in the final stretch of the campaign.
Thus, andThe ÖVP seems to have narrowed the gap with the FPÖwhich had led opinion polls for more than a year with up to 30% of voting intentions.
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