Thursday, 21. November 2002
Topic: - on November 21, 2002 at 6:17:57 PM CET
Austrians decide not to be Nazis anymore. Waldheim and the horse pissed
Austria's far right in decline
Three years after it became Europe's first country in recent history to vote a far-right party into power, Austria goes to the polls this Sunday looking set to reverse the trend.
A massive swing back to the centre-left and centre-right parties which have traditionally governed there is widely expected.
Joerg Haider, whose pro-Nazi and anti-foreigner sentiments appalled other European nations but won him 27% of the vote in 1999, is sitting this election out.
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