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Leader of Austrian Right Dies in Crash
VIENNA -- Jörg Haider, the leader of Austria’s far right, was killed in a car accident on Saturday, the national news agency APA reported.
The agency quoted the police as saying Mr. Haider died after suffering severe head and chest injuries when a car he was driving went out of control and rolled over several times outside the southern city of Klagenfurt. APA said he was alone in the car.
Rightist groups surged to a combined 30 percent of the vote in a national parliamentary election last month, with Mr. Haider’s smaller Alliance for Austria’s Future tripling its support to around 12 percent.
Mr. Haider, born in 1950, became a full-time politician in 1977 for the right-wing Freedom Party.
He caused an international stir when the Freedom Party formed a coalition government with the conservative People’s Party in 2000, setting off widespread condemnation and European Union sanctions.
Mr. Haider made headlines by campaigning on an anti-immigration ticket.
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10-11-2008, 01:09 AM
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