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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Don't liken me to far-right leader Haider, says Austria's Stronach

Austrian-Canadian businessman and billionaire Frank Stronach of "Team Stronach" delivers a speech during his final election rally in St. PoeltenVIENNA (Reuters) - The euroskeptic billionaire whose success in Austrian politics is sapping support from the far-right Freedom Party rejected comparisons to its late longtime leader Joerg Haider and said he would not be content with third place in national elections. Frank Stronach's party - Team Stronach - won a 10th of the vote in two state elections on March 3, months after he founded it, tapping into the roughly one third of voters who oppose bailouts of euro zone laggards such as Greece and Ireland. ...



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