Less than two weeks before the elections for the Austrian parliament (Nationalrat, or National Council), a development first apparent in the spring of this year appears to be coming to fruition.
The conservative People's Party leads in all public opinion polls and can expect a plurality of votes and seats in the National Council.
Considering the party's recent decline, such an outcome would be a remarkable reversal of a nearly 40-year trend.
Since the 1980s, Austria's par...
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