Austria voted on Sunday in a parliamentary election that is expected to see 31-year-old conservative Sebastian Kurz become Chancellor on a pledge to take a hard line on refugees and prevent a repeat of Europe’s migration crisis.
Mr. Kurz propelled his People’s Party (OVP) to the top of opinion polls when he became leader in May.
The winner will probably need a coalition to govern and the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) could be kingmaker.
Austria, a wealthy country of 8.7 million people that stretches from Slovakia to Switzerland, was a gateway into Germany for more than one million people during the migration crisis that began in 2015. It also took in roughly 1% of its population in asylum seekers in 2015, one of the highest proportions on the continent.
