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Far-right Austrian leader given mandate to try to form a new coalition government
Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen, left, welcomes head of the Freedom Party (FPOe) Herbert Kickl in his office, in Vienna, Austria, January 6, 2025

THE leader of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FP) received a mandate today to form a new government.

If FP leader Herbert Kickl succeeds in putting together a coalition, it would be the first headed by the far right since World War II.

The anti-immigration and anti-European Union FP, which opposes sanctions against Russia, won a parliamentary election in September. 

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