Austrian law-and-order presidential candidate wins 1st round

With the candidates of establishment parties shut out of the office for the first time since Austria's political landscape was reformed after World War II, Freedom Party chief Heinz-Christian Strache hailed the "historic event" that he said reflected massive "voter dissatisfaction."

... voters were unhappy with the Social Democrats and the People's Party even before the migrant influx last year forced their coalition government to swing from open borders to tough asylum restrictions. Decades of bickering over key issues -- most recently tax, pension and education reform -- has fed perceptions of political stagnation.