austrian chancellor quits after farright election triumph
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Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann:

Austrian chancellor quits after far-right election triumph

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Werner Faymann has been Chancellor of Austria
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Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann resigned on Monday, his spokeswoman said, following the triumph by the far-right last month in the first round of presidential elections.

"He has resigned from all functions," spokeswoman Anja Richter told AFP.

In the first round of elections to the largely ceremonial post of president on April 24, Norbert Hofer of the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) came first with 35 percent.

Hofer will now face Alexander van der Bellen, a former head of the Greens, in a runoff on May 22.

The two candidates from the ruling coalition parties, Faymann's centre-left Social Democrats (SPOe) and the centre-right People's Party (OeVP), were knocked out.

This means that for the first time since 1945, there will not be a president from either of these two centrist parties.

The two parties have dominated Austrian politics since World War II, but their support has been sliding for years.

At the last general election, in 2013, they only just scratched together a majority. 

Now, the FPOe is leading opinion polls with over 30 percent, the SPOe and the OeVP with less than 50 between them.

The FPOe has been boosted by unease about the arrival last year of 90,000 asylum-seekers.

Faymann has been chancellor since 2008.

Source :AFP

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