Austria's two ruling parties, the Social Democrats and the conservative People's Party, received a severe drubbing in Sunday's snap general election.
Social Democratic Party leader Werner Faymann looks set to take over the chancellorship by winning 29.7 per cent, though his party lost 6 percentage points compared with the last elections in 2006. The record low results by the Social Democrats and their junior coalition partner contrasted with dramatic gains for the far-right Freedom Party and of the Alliance for the Future of Austria, led by Austria's notorious right-wing leader Joerg Haider.
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