Villach is the seventh-largest city in Austria and the second-largest in the federal state of Carinthia. It is an important traffic junction for southern Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. As of January 2018,the population is 61,887.
Karl-Heinz Grasser is a former Austrian politician,who held the office of Austrian Finance Minister from February 2000 to January 2007 as a member of the two subsequent governments of Wolfgang Schüssel. For some time,Grasser was some kind of a jet set person after marrying Fiona Swarovski,the heir of the Swarovski crystal manufacturers in Tyrol,Austria. While at the time praised by many for,in Grasser's words "consolidating Austria's budget",he has since then been known for his involvement in major corruption scandals. In 2020,Grasser was sentenced to 8 years in prison for corruption.
The Alliance for the Future of Austria is a right-wing populist,national conservative political party in Austria.
The Landbund was an Austrian political party during the period of the First Republic (1918–1934).
Andreas Mölzer is an Austrian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Freedom Party of Austria.
Legislative elections were held in Austria on 1 October 2006 to elect the 23rd National Council,the lower house of Austria's bicameral parliament.
Gernot Rumpold is an Austrian politician,best known for his association with Jörg Haider.
Jörg Haider was an Austrian politician. He was Governor of Carinthia on two occasions,the long-time leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and later Chairman of the Alliance for the Future of Austria,a breakaway party from the FPÖ.
The Freedom Party of Austria is a political party in Austria,variously described as far-right,right-wing populist,national-conservative,eurosceptic and russophile. It has been led by Herbert Kickl since 2021. It is the largest of five parties in the National Council,with 58 of the 183 seats,and won 29.21% of votes cast in the 2024 election and it is represented in all nine state legislatures. On a European level,the FPÖis a founding member of the Patriots.eu and its six MEPs sit with the Patriots for Europe (PfE) group following the dissolution of its predecessor,Identity and Democracy (ID).
The Freedom Party in Carinthia (German:Die Freiheitlichen in Kärnten,FPK,alternative English translations:Carinthian Freedom Party,Freedom Party of Carinthia,The Freedomites in Carinthia,or Carinthia Freedom Party) was a political party in Austria,operating in the federal state of Carinthia.
The Social Democratic Party of Austria is a social democratic political party in Austria. Founded in 1889 as the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria and later known as the Socialist Party of Austria from 1945 until 1991,the party is the oldest extant political party in Austria. Along with the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP),it is one of the country's two traditional major parties. It is positioned on the centre-left on the political spectrum.
The 2013 Carinthian state election was held on 3 March 2013 to elect the members of the Landtag of Carinthia.
Presidential elections were held in Austria on 24 April 2016,with a second round run-off on 22 May 2016. However,the results of the second round were annulled and a re-vote took place on 4 December 2016.
Peter Kaiser is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party. Since March 2013 he is governor of Carinthia and since March 2010 also chairman of the SPÖCarinthia.
Gernot Blümel is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). He served as Austria's finance minister from 2020 to 2021,having announced his resignation shortly after Alexander Schallenberg's resignation on 2 December 2021. Since 2015,he has been the chairman of the Vienna branch of the ÖVP. Prior,he was Chancellery minister for European Affairs,Art,Culture,and Media from 2017 to 2019;he was also General Secretary of the ÖVP from 2013 to 2015.
Legislative elections were held in Austria on 29 September 2024 to elect the 28th National Council,the lower house of Austria's bicameral parliament.
The 2009 Carinthian state election was held on 1 March 2009 to elect the members of the Landtag of Carinthia.
Georg Hans Jeitler,also referred as Georg H. Jeitler,is an Austrian entrepreneur,lecturer and forensic economist based in Vienna,Austria. He has served as a judiciary's expert witness and investigator in several Austrian corruption scandals including Telekom Austria Affair and Tetron Affair. He is vice president of the Austrian Court Experts’Association.
Klagenfurt,also known as Electoral District 2A,is one of the 39 multi-member regional electoral districts of the National Council,the lower house of the Austrian Parliament,the national legislature of Austria. The electoral district was created in 1992 when electoral regulations were amended to add regional electoral districts to the existing state-wide electoral districts and came into being at the following legislative election in 1994. It consists of the city of Klagenfurt and the district of Klagenfurt Rural in the state of Carinthia. The electoral district currently elects three of the 183 members of the National Council using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2019 legislative election the constituency had 121,099 registered electors.
Christian Ragger is an Austrian politician of the Freedom Party. Since 2017,he has been a member of the National Council. He was a member of the Carinthian Landtag from 1999 to 2009,a member of the state government from 2009 to 2016,and the leader of the Freedom Party in Carinthia from 2013 to 2016.
