.Herbert Kickl, head of the Independence PartyAn exit poll observing Sunday's ballot through broadcaster ORF indicated Austria's Freedom Party leading with 29.1% matched up to 26.2% for Chancellor Karl Nehammer's Austrian People's Gathering and 20.4% for the centre-left Social Democrats.Herbert Kickl, head of the Independence Gathering might struggle to assemble a governing coalition.Ahead of the vote, the Flexibility Event was directly leading polls after an initiative paid attention to migration, rising cost of living and also battle in Ukraine. The Flexibility Gathering innovator has called International Earnings chief Ursula von.der Leyen a "warmonger" and also opposes assents on Russia over its.intrusion of Ukraine.