Austrians’ Rejection of Far-right Carries a Message
“It’s very tragic because we were having another person, Hofer, who speaks more for the old way of thinking, of pushing people against each other and is more in a rightist direction, in a Fascist direction, like Hitler,” said Eva, a voter who cast her ballot Sunday in central Vienna.

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Centrists and leftists across Europe are expressing relief after projections from Austria’s presidential election showed far right, anti-immigrant, Euroskeptic Norbert Hofer lost by a 7 percent margin to Alexander Van Der Bellen, an independent supported by the Green Party in a race seen as a test for the strength of populist movements in Europe. It was…


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