Austrians roundly reject far right in presidential election
December 5, 2016
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![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](http://i2.wp.com/tellmamauk.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/2016-12-04T170827Z_1_LYNXMPECB30J1_RTROPTP_3_AUSTRIA-ELECTION.jpg?fit=300%2C209)
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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