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Results of Austria’s presidential election this weekend remain unknown.
The race is so tight that absentee ballots counted later this week will determine the outcome.
With 98% of the vote counted, anti-immigration Freedom Party FPÖ candidate Norbert Hoferm is in a dead heat with Green party candidate Alexander Van der Bellen
About 900,000 absentee ballots (14% of the overall total), need to be counted.
This is the first time since WWII that the center left and center right parties were knocked out of the election in the first round.
The BBC reports Austria Presidential Vote: Run-Off Race too Close to Call.
Partial results in Austria’s run-off presidential election, which pitches the far right against an independent, suggest it is too close to call.
Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party and Alexander Van der Bellen were each on 50%, with 98% of the vote counted.
The presidents of the European Commission and the European Parliament, Jean-Claude Juncker and Martin Schulz, have both expressed concern over a Hofer victory.
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