Austrian Elections & Politics 2.0 (Presidential runoff re-vote: 4 Dec. 2016)

[Lotuslander]

ORF is projecting a minimal 3,000 vote win for VdB after all of the postal ballots have been counted. From afar, my poli instinct also suggests a VdB marginal win as well.

BTW, ORF projects VdB to take 60.8% of the postal ballots v. 39.2% for Hofer:

[Lotuslander]

Tender... a bit of an "out there" query. It involves South Tyrol (and let dead dogs sleep is my motto in that regard).

Nevertheless, back in 2015, a Spectra opinion poll of Austrians stated that 89% both favour a referendum in South Tyrol and 89% also preferred South Tyrol becoming part of Austria.

http://www.thelocal.at/20150126/austrians-in-favour-of-unification-with-south-tyrol

Along those same lines, Hofer is a far-right nationalist and am curious why he does not advocate same in Austria during the presidential election campaign. In Austrian Tyrol, VdB won by 51.4% to 48.6% over Hofer in the previous final ballot.

One would think that Hofer would champion such a South Tyrol referendum during the current campaign in order to perhaps swing the state of Tyrol over to him.

Again, I am just throwing this matter out there. Am against same myself... but curious why far-right Hofer does not champion same?