.Herbert Kickl, scalp of the Independence PartyAn exit poll adhering to Sunday's ballot through broadcaster ORF showed Austria's Freedom Party leading with 29.1% matched up to 26.2% for Chancellor Karl Nehammer's Austrian Folks's Gathering and 20.4% for the centre-left Social Democrats.Herbert Kickl, scalp of the Flexibility Event may struggle to craft a governing coalition.Ahead of the vote, the Liberty Celebration was actually directly leading polls after a project focused on migration, rising cost of living and war in Ukraine. The Independence Gathering leader has named European Earnings chief Ursula von.der Leyen a "warmonger" and resists permissions on Russia over its.infiltration of Ukraine.