Austrian election could produce first EU far-right head of state

[WorldNews]

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By Francois Murphy and Michael Shields VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria could elect the European Union's first far-right head of state on Sunday, with support for Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer buoyed by a migration crisis that has heightened fears about employment and security. Opinion polls suggest the presidential race between Hofer and former Greens leader Alexander van der Bellen will be close-run. Austria took in 90,000 asylum seekers last year, more than 1 percent of its population, many of them shortly after it and neighboring Germany threw open their borders last autumn to a wave of migrants including refugees from Syria's civil war.

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