VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPO) advanced to a fifth of the vote in an European Union election on Sunday that the centre-right People's Party was again set to win, initial projections by ORF television showed.
The People's Party (OVP), which won the 2009 election in Austria for the European Parliament with 30 percent of the vote, fell to 27.1 percent this time. The centre-left Social Democrats were steady at nearly 24 percent, while the Eurosceptic FPO reached 20.1 percent from nearly 13 percent.
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