Herbert Kickl celebrates his FPOe party's victory in the Austrian national elections. The FPOe won 28.8 percent of votes, beating the ruling conservative People's Party (OeVP) into second place at 26.3 percent, according to near-complete results.
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00:00It is a piece of history that we have written together today.
00:04And when I say we have written history, I mean two things.
00:08On the one hand, we have written party history.
00:11Yes, the famous 26.9% of Jörg Haider.
00:16I think he forgives us that we cried over it today.
00:19On the contrary, he would be proud of us.
00:24And the second thing is, we have written Austrian history.
00:29Because it is the first time that the Liberal Party is number one in a national council.
00:35We have actually opened this gate.
00:38We have knocked on a door to a new era.
00:41We will now really write this new chapter of Austrian history together.
00:46We have internalized that it is first the people and then the chancellor.