Inside Europe: Austria rejects far-right presidency
Politics
Kerry Skyring
December 9, 2016
Austrians were at the polls last Sunday and were perhaps guaranteed to deliver a surprise whatever the result. The winner would either be the EU’s first far right head-of-state or first Green President. As it turns out it is the former Green party leader, Alexander Van der Bellen, who will take up post. Kerry Skyring reports from Vienna on an election watched in all European capitals.