"Green Professor" Has Been Elected As a New President of Austria

• 12.05.2016, 12:22
•  Europe,  World

H.- P. Bader / Reuters

Former Green party leader Alexander Van Der Bellen will be the next President of Austria. He had taken a decisive lead with 53.6 percent of the vote, official page of EuroNews reports.

The far right Freedom Party candidate, Norbert Hofer, conceded defeat in a conciliatory fashion when he announced:

"I have always said, the winner will be a good winner and the loser will be a good loser. And I ask all the people who have voted for me to accept that in a democracy the voter is always right, always. And that in the end we all have to unite and stand together. That is of special importance".

A relieved Alexander Van Der Bellen talked about his ambition to be a President that the Austrians will call their own saying:

"I hope that when people recognise me on the street or on the village green or in Vienna’s underground six years from now at the end of my term they’ll say, ‘look, there is our federal president’, not the federal president but everyone’s president."