.Herbert Kickl, head of the Freedom PartyAn departure poll observing Sunday's ballot through broadcaster ORF displayed to Austria's Freedom Gathering leading along with 29.1% matched up to 26.2% for Chancellor Karl Nehammer's Austrian Folks's Celebration as well as 20.4% for the centre-left Social Democrats.Herbert Kickl, scalp of the Freedom Gathering might struggle to assemble a regulating coalition.Ahead of the vote, the Freedom Party was actually directly leading surveys after a campaign concentrated on immigration, rising cost of living and battle in Ukraine. The Freedom Celebration forerunner has actually called European Earnings chief Ursula von.der Leyen a "warmonger" and opposes assents on Russia over its own.invasion of Ukraine.