VIENNA, Jan 29 Austrian right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ) , which advocates the lifting of sanctions against the Russian Federation, tentatively takes 2nd place in the elections to the Landtag of Lower Austria with 25.4% of the vote, such data are provided by the exit poll of the ORF TV channel. ) from 39.7% of the vote. This is the historically worst result of the party in the region. Compared with the results of the previous elections, the party loses 9.9% of the vote.
The third place is provisionally taken by the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) with 25.2% of the vote. The Greens (7.3%) and NEOS (6.3%) parties are also preliminary candidates for the new Landtag.
In the previous elections in Lower Austria in 2018, the ÖVP received 49.63% of the votes , Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) — 23.92%, right-wing FPÖ — 14.76%. The Greens (6.43%) and the liberal party NEOS (5.15%) also entered the state parliament.
The ruling Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) will lose votes in the elections to the state parliament (landtag) of Lower Austria, which will be on Sunday, January 29, the right-wing Austrian Free Party (FPÖ), whose leaders are in favor of lifting anti-Russian sanctions, claims the second place according to the voting results. Such data were previously given in opinion polls published at the beginning of this week.
The most important topic of these elections, which was named by the respondents of the largest area of the federal state of Austria, was the cost of energy. This was stated by more than 70% of the respondents. In second place and third place, respectively, are inflation (61% of respondents) and the healthcare system (54%).