VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann wants to preserve the centrist, pro-European coalition his Social Democrats (SPO) lead with the conservative People's Party (OVP) should his party win parliamentary elections next week, he told a Sunday newspaper.
But late gains by two small parties threaten to block a new version of the "grand coalition" of the two big blocs that have dominated post-war politics, opinion polls showed ahead of next Sunday's vote in the Alpine republic.
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