Austria’s president set to win second term; no runoff
Austria’s liberal president was on course to win a second six-year term outright Sunday, avoiding a runoff vote after a campaign in which he portrayed himself as the stable option in uncertain times.
Preliminary results gave President Alexander Van der Bellen 54.6 percent of the vote and his closest rival, far-right Freedom Party candidate Walter Rosenkranz, 19.1 percent.
Those figures didn’t include postal ballots, which will be counted on Monday.
Campaign posters for the 78-yearold Van der Bellen, who hails from the environmentalist Green party but ran as an independent, featured the slogan “The Safe Choice in Stormy Times.”