Stockbyte/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Alexander Van der Bellen appears to have won the Austrian presidency, defeating Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer.
Austria’s presidency is a largely ceremonial post, Hofer had won, he would have become Austria and Western Europe’s first far-right head of state since World War II.
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