Herbert Kickl, leader of the Freedom Party of Austria celebrates with supporters, in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, after polls closed in the country's national election.

The Freedom Party secured the first far-right national parliamentary election victory in post-World War II Austria on Sunday, finishing ahead of the governing conservatives after tapping into ...

Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister and longtime campaign strategist who has led the Freedom Party since 2021, wants to become Austria’s new chancellor on the back of the first far-right ...

Herbert Kickl, leader of the Freedom Party of Austria, speaking in Vienna after the country’s election on Sept. 29, 2024. AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru ...

VIENNA (AP) — The Freedom Party secured the first far-right national parliamentary election victory in post-World War II Austria on Sunday, finishing ahead of the governing conservatives after ...

Reuters. Head of Freedom Party (FPOe) Herbert Kickl speaks during a television debate, after the first exit polls during the general election, in Vienna, Austria, September 29, 2024.

Still, Kickl has achieved a turnaround since Austria's last election in 2019. In June, the Freedom Party narrowly won a nationwide vote for the first time in the European Parliament election ...

Austria’s nationalist, anti-immigration Freedom Party came in first in the country, with 25.4 percent of the votes, and preliminary polling suggests the group may be even more successful in the ...

Austria’s Sunday general elections ended not with a whimper but with a bang for the populist, far-right Freedom Party Austria (FPÖ): Its support dropped from 26 percent to 16.2 percent as ...

A projection for ORF public television, based on counting of more than half the votes, put support for the Freedom Party at 29.2% and Chancellor Karl Nehammer's Austrian People's Party at 26.3%.

VIENNA — Austria’s far-right Freedom Party was headed for its first win in a national parliamentary election on Sunday, finishing ahead of the governing conservatives after tapping into voters ...