Austria: Tight presidential election reveals a split nation

  23 May 2016    Read: 1008
Austria: Tight presidential election reveals a split nation
A Eurosceptic, anti-immigration right-winger and his left-leaning rival are neck and neck in Austria`s presidential election a day after polls closed, and officials are now counting absentee ballots to determine who will win.
Direct votes Sunday gave right-winger Norbert Hofer 51.9 percent to 48.1 percent for Alexander Van der Bellen, a Greens politician running as an independent. But final projections that include still-to-be-counted absentee ballots put each at 50 percent with Van der Bellen narrowly ahead.

About 700,000 absentee ballots — close to a sixth of total votes cast — are slated to be counted by Monday evening for a final tally.

Whoever wins, Sunday`s voting has revealed a profound split over which direction the nation should now take, particularly over migration and the future of the European Union.

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