Saturday, June 3, 2023

Tag: Austria

72-Year-Old Fringe Left Candidate Wins Presidency in Austrian Run-Off Election —...

Austrians just elected a crusty 72-year-old leftist as their country's president in a surprise result that saw both their major mainstream party's candidates crushed. Could a crusty 74-year-old leftist named Bernie Sanders pull off the same feat here in the US, running as a Green candidate if Hillary Clinton gets the Democratic nomination?

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