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Austrian presidential election to be too close to call: survey

Xinhua, November 12, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Austrian presidential election on December 4 will be too close to call, research institute SORA was quoted as saying on Friday.

In a report from Der Standard, SORA said a poll from October gives a very slight edge to right-wing Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer, with 51 percent of respondents giving him their support for the repeated election.

It noted, however, that overall little appears to have changed since the annulled result from the May 22 run-off round, in which former Greens leader Alexander Van der Bellen won by only 0.3 percent of the vote, with only one percent of voters having shifted their support to the opposing candidate in the time since.

SORA noted that a late mobilization of voters in the days ahead of the election could change the result, with potential for about a three-percentage-point improvement for both candidates. Endit