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LEFT-LEANING CANDIDATE WINS AUSTRIA'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION — BARELY
NPR
A left-leaning, Green Party-backed candidate has won Austria's presidential election, edging out an anti-immigrant populist by just 0.6 percent of the vote.
Alexander Van der Bellen, a retired economics professor, had 50.3 percent of the vote, according to The Associated Press. His rival, Norbert Hofer of the far-right Freedom Party, had 49.7 percent.
A mere 31,000 votes — out of more than 4.6 million — separated the two candidates.
Joanna Kakissis, reporting for NPR from Vienna, described der Bellen as a 72-year-old, chain-smoking economist.
The man he defeated, 45-year-old Hofer, is a polarizing figure, as Joanna explains: