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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9339
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/austria

08/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - Three months after the general election, the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) and the People's Party (ÖVP) announced on 8 January that they had concluded an agreement on the formation of a “grand coalition”, to be led by Alfred Gusenbauer (SPÖ). In the election of 1 October, the Social Democrats won 35.3% of the vote, just beating the ÖVP (34.3%). On Monday, the leader of the European Socialist Party (ESP) Poul Nyrup Rasmussen congratulated Mr Gusenbauer,...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT