Austria’s liberal president is on course to win a second six-year term in an election without the need for a runoff vote.

Austrian voters will head to the polls Sunday in the first round of the country’s presidential election.

Austria’s 78-year-old president says he will seek reelection later this year, following a term that has seen him pilot the Alpine country through repeated political upheaval.

The Holocaust survivor Gertrude Pressburger, who became famous during Austria's 2016 presidential campaign, when in a video message as “Mrs. Gertrude” she warned of hatred and exclusion triggered by the far right, has died at 94.

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party has nominated Herbert Kickl, the country’s combative former interior minister, as its new leader.

The head of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party said Tuesday he is stepping down, raising the possibility that he could run for president of the Alpine nation next year.