Austria's liberal president was on course to win a second six-year term outright Sunday, avoiding a runoff vote after a campaign in which he portrayed himself as the stable option in uncertain times.
Preliminary results gave President Alexander Van der Bellen 54.6% of the vote and his closest rival, far-right Freedom Party candidate Walter Rosenkranz, 19.1%.
Austria has faced repeated political turmoil in recent years. The Alpine country of around 9 million people went through five chancellors during Van der Bellen's first term, with government crises giving the often-largely ceremonial head of state unusually high visibility. “We have never had seven candidates in a presidential election before, and I don't think we have ever - at least I can't think of an example - had such an environment in which people are unsettled, where discontent with politics is high and you don't know what direction that will go in,” he told ORF.
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