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Austria’s current President Alexander Van der Bellen has secured a second six-year term in office.<\/p>

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He obtained more than 50% of the vote in an election on Sunday, avoiding a second-round run-off, according to a forecast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The projection by pollster SORA put Van der Bellen, a 78-year-old former leader of the Greens, on 54.6% with a margin of error of 2.1 percentage points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final official result is not expected until Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His nearest rival was far-right Freedom Party candidate Walter Rosenkranz who 18.9% of the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pro-European, liberal president faced six other challengers \u2014 all men \u2014 but only the populist Freedom Party fielded a candidate against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He promised to provide the nation with ‘stability’ and ‘clarity’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was Austria’s first national election since the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war rocked its economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former Green leader’s campaign positioned him as “the safe choice in stormy times” during his campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He ran again as an independent, but was largely backed by Austria’s major parties \u2014 bar the Freedom Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also standing for the presidency was 35-year-old punk rocker Dominik Wlazny, who founded the Beer Party, a satirical group based around the alcoholic beverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He came in fourth place with 8.1% of the vote, according to the projections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though Van der Bellen was widely tipped to win, voters in Austria said it was still worth turning out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander Nittmann, a software developer, said before the vote: “I think it’s important to make your voice known because there are quite a few candidates this year [opposing the incumbent].”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“You really have no excuse to say \u2018my preferred candidate wasn’t there’ and that’s why I think it’s all the more important to say \u2018I’m going to vote,” he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some 6.4 million Austrians were eligible to vote in the election. Past polls put Van der Bellen as securing more than 50%, avoiding a runoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Austria’s electoral system, if a presidential candidate does not receive an outright win in the first round, a runoff is necessary against the second-placed candidate months later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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