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The Austrian Chancellor’s party, the OVP (People’s Party), has inched closer to heading Vienna’s next coalition government after the September 29 elections.
The far-right Freedom Party (FPO) became the largest party but lacks a majority.
Mainstream parties, including the OVP, are reluctant to form a government with the FPO due to its controversial policies.
Austria
Austria is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.
Capital Vienna, the most populous city : most-populous of the cities on the Danube river.
Headquarters of OPEC
one of the four headquarters of the UN
Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west.
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