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Published : 29-11-2016 - Duration : 01:49 - View : 5
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Taking hope from Donald Trump’s US election triumph, Austria’s far-right presidential candidate Norbert Hofer is eager to surf a tide of anti-establishment populism sweeping the West and win this Sunday’s re-run election.
For supporters of his independent rival, Alexander Van der Bellen, that is a worrying thought indeed.
Handing out leaflets in support of Van der Bellen on Vienna’s main shopping street, a young woman who gave her name as Berfin explained why she was volunteering for the left-leaning, former Green Party leader.
“There is a really simple reason for it. I fear for my future. Because I watched the US elections. I often think about what would happen if Norbert Hofer were to become president in Austria,” she said.
Potential voter Georg Delon, also in the Austrian capital, believes Hofer can benefit from ‘the Trump effect’.
“Van der Bellen is not we
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