Austrians roundly reject far right in presidential election

December 5, 2016 Article

Austrian presidential candidate Alexander Van der Bellen, who is supported by the Greens, and his wife Doris Schmidauer leave polling station in Vienna, Austria, December 4, 2016. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader

Austrian voters roundly rejected on Sunday a candidate vying to become the first freely elected far-right head of state in Europe since World War Two, halting at least temporarily the wave of populism sweeping Western democracies. The runoff vote was a litmus test, since it was a re-run of a vote held in May, before

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