The Greens –The Green Alternative is a green political party in Austria.
Alexander Van der Bellen is the current president of Austria. He previously served as a professor of economics at the University of Vienna,and after joining politics,as the spokesman of the Austrian Green Party.
Legislative elections were held in Austria on 1 October 2006 to elect the 23rd National Council,the lower house of Austria's bicameral parliament.
Werner Faymann is an Austrian former politician who was Chancellor of Austria and chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) from 2008 to 2016. On 9 May 2016,he resigned from both positions amid widening criticism within his party.
Presidential elections were held in Austria on 25 April 2010,the twelfth election of an Austrian head of state since 1951. The candidates were President Heinz Fischer,Barbara Rosenkranz (FPÖ) and Rudolf Gehring (CPÖ). Heinz Fischer won with just under 80% of the valid votes. Voter turnout was a historic low of 54%.
Doris Bures is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) who serves as the Second President of the Austrian National Council. From September 2014 to November 2017,she was its President. She served as Minister of Transport,Innovation and Technology from 2008 to 2014.
The Freedom Party of Austria is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Austria. It was led by Norbert Hofer from September 2019 to 1 June 2021. It is the third largest of five parties in the National Council,with 30 of the 183 seats,and won 16.2% of votes cast in the 2019 legislative election. It is represented in all nine state legislatures,and a member of two state cabinets. On a European level,the FPÖis a founding member of the Identity and Democracy Party and its three Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) sit with the Identity and Democracy (ID) group.
NEOS –The New Austria and Liberal Forum is a liberal political party in Austria. It was founded as NEOS –The New Austria in 2012. In 2014,NEOS merged with Liberal Forum and adopted its current name.
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.
Ulrich Habsburg-Lothringen is an Austrian forester and politician,who was formerly in the Green Party of Austria,but is now non-partisan. He is a member of the Habsburg Family who wanted to participate in the election for the Austrian Federal President in the 2010 election. However,being member of a formerly ruling family,he was not eligible to do so. That law has been cancelled since,so he can now participate. He thought about another try for the following presidential election,which was held in April 2016,but finally decided to endorse the non-partisan judge Irmgard Griss instead.
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.
Norbert Gerwald Hofer is an Austrian politician who served as Leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) from June 2019 to June 2021. He previously was Minister for Transport,Innovation and Technology from 2017 to 2019 under Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
Karlheinz Kopf is an Austrian politician of the conservative People's Party (ÖVP).
Legislative elections were held in Austria on 29 September 2019 to elect the 27th National Council,the lower house of Austria's bicameral parliament. The snap election was called in the wake of the Ibiza affair in May,which caused the resignation of Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache and the collapse of the governing coalition of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). The government subsequently lost a motion of no confidence in parliament,and ÖVP Chancellor Sebastian Kurz was replaced by non-partisan Brigitte Bierlein on an interim basis.
Karin Kneissl is an Austrian diplomat,journalist and independent politician,serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2017 and 2019. She is an expert on the Middle East and was a lecturer before assuming the government position she was offered by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
Brigitte Bierlein is an Austrian former jurist who served as Chancellor of Austria from June 2019 to January 2020. An Independent,she was the first female Chancellor of Austria.
Martha Bißmann is an Austrian politician. She served in the National Council from 2017 to 2019,entering as a member of the Peter Pilz List after its leader Peter Pilz withdrew. She was expelled from the party in July 2018,and thereafter served as an independent deputy. She did not seek re-election in the 2019 election. Prior to this,she was campaign manager for independent candidate Irmgard Griss during her 2016 presidential bid.
The Ibiza affair,also known as Ibiza-gate,was a political scandal in Austria involving Heinz-Christian Strache,the former vice chancellor of Austria and leader of the Freedom Party (FPÖ),and Johann Gudenus,a deputy leader of the Freedom Party.
The 2020 Viennese state election was held on 11 October 2020 to elect the members of the Gemeinderat and Landtag of Vienna. The outgoing government was a coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) and The Greens.
Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Austria in 2022. Incumbent Alexander Van der Bellen is eligible for one more term.
