'We have seen a real shift in power here in Austria'

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00:00increased their share of the vote by more than 10 percent compared to the last elections in 2019.

00:05On the other hand, the Conservatives, the People's Party here has seen its vote plummet by more than

00:1010 percent. So we've seen a real shift in power here in Austria. In terms of reaction, well,

00:15of course, the Freedom Party are absolutely jubilant. I think a lot of them didn't perhaps

00:19believe the opinion polls which were pointing to this victory. They were concerned that it

00:24might not work out that way. But, you know, it turns out, of course, that it has. I'm actually

00:29here at an election function of the NEOs, the Liberal Party here in Austria, who've done

00:35reasonably well as well. But when the first results were announced here, I think there was

00:39some kind of shock among the crowd. Certainly, you know, people, I think, are concerned about

00:45what implications this might have for Austria abroad, for Austria's standing in the world

00:50and so on. What we can say, though, for certain, is that Austrians have voted for change. And

00:55whatever form that change will take, we don't know at this stage, but that's the way it seems

01:00to have gone. The biggest problem for the Freedom Party is that no other party has said they will

01:05work together with them, or certainly not while the Freedom Party leader is Herbert Kicill. He's

01:10a man that's divided opinion here. And all the other parties have said as long as he's going to

01:15be, you know, the boss of the party, we will definitely not be forming a coalition with them.

01:20So it's very difficult to see here at the moment how the Freedom Party can find a route to forming

01:24a coalition.

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