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Mon 10 Oct 2008Sudden death of Haider may hasten merger of far-right parties in Austria
AUSTRIA: UNCERTAINTY SURROUNDS the shape of Austria's next government following the death of far-right politician Jörg Haider in a high-speed car crash early on Saturday morning.
Mr Haider, the polarising populist premier of Carinthia for nearly two decades, was driving to his mother's 90th birthday party in Klagenfurt when he lost control of the car he was driving at 142km/h (88 mph), twice the speed limit.
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