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Liberal Green Party wins Austrian Presidency as Nationalist Freedom Party loses in a nail-biter

Alexander Van der Bellen, a 72-year-old economics professor and the former head of Austria’s Green Party, won a cliffhanger presidential election on Monday, narrowly defeating his far-right rival by the slimmest of margins – 50.3 percent of the vote to the ultranationalist Norbert Hofer’s 49.7 percent, a difference of about 30,000 votes, that was determined via absentee ballots.

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