A swing to the right in austria after snap elections first results have the conservative Peoples Party led by sebastian corks on course to win well take you live to vienna coming up. Welcome to the show my names sara harmon its good to have you with us we turn first to the german state of lower saxony where the first results are coming in in Regional Elections now these Elections Come just three weeks after the National Vote and theyre seen as an important barometer of Voter Sentiment as chancellor merkel tries to form a Coalition Government a poor result from Eccles Christian democrats could weaken her position in those Coalition Talks opinion polls ahead of the vote put her neck and neck with the social democrats the far right alternative for germany was forecast to Enter Parliament in the state for the very first time. Im joined here in the studio by Thomas Sparrow from our Politics Department and ive also got michelle a cook in our reporting for us live from hanover well be speakin
Keil action in the state of lower saxony bring you the latest results and tell you what they need for shelter for uncle americal as she tries to form a new coalition government. And im sarah harman welcome to the program its very good to have you with us auster it is set to get a new chancellor as early Election Results give conservatives about courts a clear lead thirty one year old to become europes youngest government leader after a campaign in which he promised to clamp down on immigration courts is expected to go into government with the far right Freedom Party which is in a close race to prove second place vote marks a swing to the right in austria after decades of centrist governments. And we have some early results for you from this paulo do you keep in mind these results could change they are provisional well lets pull up the graphic for you you can see there in black conservative Peoples Party led by sebastian course our own thirty one point seven percent and as we mentioned