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VIENNA (AP) — Austria's right-wing Freedom Party has expelled one of its legislators after she backed anti-Semitic sentiments in a Facebook posting.
In a statement Monday, the party also demanded that Susanne Winter give up her seat in parliament — something she said she would not do. Winter said she would continue to sit in the legislature as an independent.
Winter insists she is not anti-Semitic. But the Freedom Party agreed to expel her in response to last week's post in which she backed a Facebook statement by one of her supporters that said "Jews the world over are the problem."
Winter responded: "nice that you take the words out of my mouth," adding a smiling and winking emoticon.
She later deleted both postings.
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