The elections in Austria to elect the next president have begun this Sunday at 06:00 local time in Austria and will end at 5:00 p.m., when the last of the 10,000 authorized polling places close. More of 6.3 million Austrians are summoned to elect among seven candidates who will be the head of state for the next six years.
It is expected that participation is around 65%nine points less than in the 2016 presidential elections. Shortly after the closing of the schools, the first projections executed on the actual vote count will be announced.
The final result will not be known until Monday.when the postal vote has been scrutinized, which can account for up to 15% of the total.
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The current president, environmentalist Alexander Van der Bellencould obtain between 51 and 58% of the votes, which would achieve an absolute majority that would avoid a second round.
Van der Bellen was leader of the party The Greens between 1997 and 2008, and now presents himself as independent, with the explicit support of his former formation and also the more or less direct support of the ruler People’s Party (ÖVP)the Social Democrats SPÖ and the Liberal Neoswho do not present their own candidate.
?? Tomorrow there are presidential elections in Austria.
The green president Alexander Van der Bellen is the great favorite and could be re-elected in the first round, although he would not have it totally assured.
The far-right FPÖ candidate is second with 15%. pic.twitter.com/0WLjoJUfEa
– The Electoral (@ElElectoral) October 8, 2022
The second candidate in voting intention is Walter Rosenkranzof the ultra-nationalist party FPÖ, which could achieve 16%.
The five other candidates they could achieve support of between 9 and 1%.
These are the fourteenth presidential elections since the founding of the Second Austrian Republic in 1945.
