Polls open in Austria's parliamentary elections with far-right tipped to win

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The Freedom Party is set to win a national election for the first time in its history as it taps into voters' anxieties about immigration, inflation and the war in Ukraine.

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00:00Voting is underway in Austria's parliamentary election, with the far-right Freedom Party

00:07tipped to win in what would be their first ever election victory.

00:12They've campaigned on an Austria-first platform, but if the party fails to secure an outright

00:17majority, finding coalition partners might be tricky.

00:22Polling second is the conservative Austrian People's Party, led by incumbent Chancellor

00:26Karl Nehammer.

00:29At his campaign rally, he ruled out a coalition with the Freedom Party, and urged supporters

00:34to vote for him to prevent the far-right from coming to power.

00:40The social democratic party headed by Andreas Babler are polling in third place, and have

00:45also ruled out teaming up with the Freedom Party, calling them a threat to democracy.

00:51Rounding out the top five are the liberal NAOS party, who are neck and neck with junior

00:55coalition partner The Greens.

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