Monday, 25. November 2002

Austria's far-right collapses


Austrian populist Joerg Haider's far-right party has plunged in elections, but a landslide victory by his conservative partners could save their centre-right ruling coalition, projections show. Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel of the conservative People's Party has signalled he is open to renewing the coalition whose collapse in September triggered snap elections, but talks could take weeks and no outcome is certain.

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