.Herbert Kickl, head of the Independence PartyAn exit poll adhering to Sunday's vote through journalist ORF showed Austria's Flexibility Celebration leading along with 29.1% compared to 26.2% for Chancellor Karl Nehammer's Austrian Folks's Gathering as well as 20.4% for the centre-left Social Democrats.Herbert Kickl, scalp of the Freedom Gathering may strain to create a governing coalition.Ahead of the vote, the Flexibility Gathering was narrowly leading polls after a campaign focused on migration, rising cost of living and also war in Ukraine. The Independence Event innovator has actually named European Earnings main Ursula von.der Leyen a "warmonger" and opposes assents on Russia over its own.infiltration of Ukraine.