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The chancellor of Austria,officially the federal chancellor the Republic of Austria,is the head of government of the Republic of Austria.
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The Austrian People's Party is a Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Austria.
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An election was held in 2009 to elect the delegation from Austria to the European Parliament. Austria will have 17 seats in the European Parliament,instead of the 18 that the country had before the re-allocation of seats.
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 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.
Sebastian Kurz is an Austrian former politician who served twice as the 26th chancellor of Austria,initially from December 2017 to May 2019 and then a second time from January 2020 to October 2021. On 23 February 2024,Kurz received an eight-month suspended sentence after being convicted of perjury by a court in Vienna over his involvement in a parliamentary inquiry.
Legislative elections were held in Austria on 15 October 2017 to elect the 26th National Council,the lower house of Austria's bicameral parliament. The snap election was called when the coalition government between the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) and Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) was dissolved in May by the latter party's new leader Sebastian Kurz.
Norbert Gerwald Hofer is an Austrian politician who was the leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) from June 2019 to June 2021. He previously served as minister of transport,innovation,and technology from 2017 to 2019 under Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
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The First Kurz government was the 30th Government of Austria in office from 18 December 2017 until 3 June 2019. It succeeded the Kern government formed after the 2017 legislative election. Sebastian Kurz,chairman of the centre-right Austrian People's Party,known by its initials in German as ÖVP,reached an agreement on a coalition with the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ),setting the stage for Kurz to become chancellor of Austria—the youngest head of government in Europe—for the first time.
Werner Kogler is an Austrian politician of the Green Party who has been serving as Vice-Chancellor of Austria and minister for Arts,Culture,the Civil Service and Sport in the governments of chancellors Sebastian Kurz,Alexander Schallenberg,and Karl Nehammer since 7 January 2020.
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Karl Nehammer is an Austrian politician who has been the 29th chancellor of Austria since 2021. A member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP),he previously was Minister of the Interior from 2020 to 2021,general secretary of the ÖVP from 2018 to 2020,as well as a member of the National Council from 2017 to 2020. Nehammer assumed the chancellorship as the successor of Alexander Schallenberg,who resigned to return as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Sebastian Münzenmaier is a German politician. Born in Darmstadt,Hesse,he represents Alternative for Germany (AfD). Sebastian Münzenmaier has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2017.
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- ↑ "Sebastian Schwaighofer (aktiv)" (in German). Austrian Parliament.
- ↑ "Sebastian Schwaighofer". Meine Abgeordneten (in German).
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