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Austrian far-right leader hopes for win as national election takes place

AUSTRIANS voted today in a national election in which the far-right Freedom Party has tapped into public concerns about immigration, inflation and the war in Ukraine.

Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister who has led the Freedom Party since 2021, was hoping to become Austria’s new chancellor, with results expected after the Morning Star went to print.

Mr Kickl has used the term “Volkskanzler,” or chancellor of the people, a term used by the Nazis to describe Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.

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