Monday, 25. November 2002
Topic: - on November 25, 2002 at 12:23:42 PM CET
Austrian voters reject Haider's party
Joerg Haider's far-right Freedom Party was dealt a humiliating blow yesterday as its share of the national vote collapsed in Austria's parliamentary election and a former coalition partner swept to victory. The Freedom Party and Mr. Haider, its mercurial inspiration and sometime admirer of Adolf Hitler's policies, provoked international outrage three years ago when it won 27 per cent of the popular vote and ended up in a coalition government with the mainstream, conservative People's Party.
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