Top candidate of the People's Party (OeVP) Sebastian Kurz attends his party's victory celebration meeting in Vienna, Austria, October 15, 2017. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
VIENNA (Reuters) - With conservative leader Sebastian Kurz winning Austria's parliamentary elections on Sunday with around 32 percent of votes, many of his supporters see little reason to shy away from forming a government with the far right Freedom Party (FPO).
Amid servings of sausages, beer and white wine spritzer, Kurz's acolytes at the People's Party (OVP) election celebrations sounded enthusiastic about working with the anti-immigration Freedom Party, which got around 26 percent, within a whisker of the Social Democrats.
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