奧地利總統大選極右派候選人霍費爾被擊敗
austria’s anti-immigrant candidate, Norbert Hofer, has failed in his bid to become the country’s first far right leader since World War II, in an election seen as a test for the strength of populist movements in Europe.
The former aeronautical engineer, who campaigned on an anti-establishment, anti-immigrant, anti-EU platform, conceded defeat to his environmentalist opponent, Alexander Van Der Bellen, who ran as an independent.
Media projections said Van der Bellen won with 53.3% of the vote, compared to Hofer’s 46.7%, a victory that Van der Bellen said is a “signal of hope and change” to “all the capitals of the European Union.”
Hofer had been poised to become the EU’s first far-right leader, as unease became evident in the country in the wake of a migrant crisis that has seen tens of thousands of Muslims seek asylum in Austria.
In Vienna on Sunday night, Hofer went before reporters at the city’s Hofburg Palace and pledged to keep up his efforts to ensure that the more than 46% of Austrians who voted for him were not ignored. “We are not done,” he said.奧地利反移民總統候選人諾伯特∙霍費爾敗選，在這場被看作是對歐洲民粹主義實力考驗的選舉中未能成爲第二次世界大戰以來奧地利第一位極右翼總統。
以反體制、反移民、反歐盟爲競選主題的前航空工程師霍費爾承認敗給了對手－獨立候選人、環保主義者亞歷山大∙範德貝倫。
媒體預測，範德貝倫贏得了53.3%的選票，霍費爾贏得46.7%。範德貝倫說，他的勝利對於所有歐洲聯盟國家來說“象徵着希望與變革”。
霍費爾本來有希望成爲歐洲聯盟第一位極右翼領導人，因爲奧地利民衆顯然對於大批穆斯林來到奧地利尋求庇護造成的移民危機感到不安。
霍費爾星期天在維也納舉行記者會，承諾要繼續努力，確保那些投票支持他的46%的奧地利民衆不會被忽略。他說：“我們的事業並沒有結束。”
