Carinthia, they say, is too special to herald a nationwide swing to the far right.

ECONOMIST: Austria

Mr Haider is hardly likely to let himself be holed up in Carinthia with nationwide elections coming up.

ECONOMIST: Austria

Yet his party proved better at rabble-rousing than governing, and Haider retreated to his political fortress in Carinthia.

ECONOMIST: Commemorating a populist with shades of truth and memory

Immediately after the war he had been involved, in Carinthia, in the forced repatriation of thousands of Yugoslavs and Cossacks.

ECONOMIST: Obituary

Mr Haider, now governor of Carinthia, seems more interested in the perks of power than in his old xenophobic message.

ECONOMIST: The far-right maverick forms a new party of his own

Ah well, say the coalition's savants in Vienna, at least Mr Haider will lose national influence if he takes up office in rural Carinthia.

ECONOMIST: Austria

Whatever the election result, he says, he will not give up his job as premier of the deep-south state of Carinthia for one in Vienna.

ECONOMIST: Austria

But it would be unwise to depict Carinthia as altogether unrepresentative.

ECONOMIST: Austria

With Mr Haider personally kept out of national power in Vienna and restricted to his governorship of the southern province of Carinthia, he was increasingly reduced to the margin.

ECONOMIST: Austria's general election

Born into a community of stateless survivors in the mountains of what had once been Carinthia, their natural language a dialect enlivened by words from a dozen others, they were regarded often now as Gypsies.

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