AlQa'dah 26, 1435, Sep 21, 2014, SPA -- Austria's two ruling coalition parties took more punishment in a provincial election on Sunday, after clinging on to a majority in last year's nation poll, as voters turned to the greens and the new Neos party. The Alpine province of Vorarlberg is the first of four more upcoming regional polls and a test for the coalition partners, the SPO and OVP, which have dominated government in Austria for 70 years, Reuters reported. The conservative OVP, or People's Party, lost its absolute majority and went down 9 percentage points to around 42 percent. It now has to look for a coalition partner in Vorarlberg. The social-democrat SPO, party of Austrian chancellor Werner Faymann, recorded one of its worst results since 1945 with around 9 percent, according to state broadcaster ORF. -- SPA 22:36 LOCAL TIME 19:36 GMT تغريد
