Austrian party of freedom

The Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs , or FPÖ ( Liberal party of Austria ), is a Austrian Political party usually associated in the name of its former leader, Jörg Haider. The FPÖ is generally regarded as a populist party and Nationaliste. Its strong topics are the fight against non-European immigration, a reinforcement of the laws and a policy to promote and reinforce the family and the European birthrate. It adheres in 2007 to the parliamentary group Identité, tradition, sovereignty with the the European Parliament.

History

The FPÖ was founded in 1955, and was at its beginnings a party with the visions rather Libéral are. It draws its roots in the movement of nationalities of the XIXe century & the spirit of 1848. It thus attracted a range of liberal members anxious anticlericals of the potential insulation of catholic Austria compared to nationalist Germany, a minority part of them being favorable to the Anschluss .

In 1980, the European wing of the FPÖ takes the control of the party under the direction of Norbert Steger. In 1983, this one inserted the FPÖ in a coalition government with the social democrats of the chancellor Fred Sinowatz.

With the national convention of the party in 1986 with Innsbruck, Jörg Haider, supported by the tendencies German main road & Austrian main road, évince Steger and takes the direction of the FPÖ. Little time after, the Austrian chancellor announces new elections and form a coalition with the conservatives of the OVP, relegating the FPÖ in the opposition.

From 1986 to 2001, Haider goes to impose its mark on the party which it will position more and more towards the nationalist right and populist, not hesitating to relativize or reinterpret the past Nazi of his country. In 1989, Haider becomes chancellor of Carinthie with the assistance of the social democrats but it must resign as of 1991, after its first declarations discussed on the Third Reich which would have been more effective than the government of Vienna in the Employment Policy.

In 1993, the European wing of the FPÖ leaves the party to found the liberal Forum. The same year, the FPÖ cancels its adhesion with International Liberal.

In 1999, Haider is re-elected governor of Carinthie with the absolute majority of the votes. With the legislative elections of the same year, the FPÖ obtains 27% of the votes right behind the social democrats. It then precedes of 4000 votes the conservative party ÖVP of the Foreign Minister Wolfgang Schüssel.

The negociations to carry out a coalition lead to a new coalition between the FPÖ and the ÖVP making it possible Wolfgang Schüssel to take the chancellery. The installation of the coalition causes a consternation in Europe where the 14 members of the European Union decide to put Austria under monitoring in order to check that the country always respects the most elementary democratic rights. The bilateral contacts are at least reduced with the government. The Austrian president Thomas Klestil will go even until questioning the Ministers for the FPÖ on their honesty with the Austria.

The European leaders quickly realize that their measurements are against productive, having led to reinforce the links of the population behind their government. As of the summer 2000, it is officially noted that Austria remains a democracy and the contacts begin again all the more easily as Haider does not form part of the government and gave up the presidency of party FPÖ in February 2000 to devote itself to the Carinthie.

Within the government, several members of the FPÖ emergent by their competence like Susanne Riess-To pass, vice-chancelière, and Karl-Heinz Grasser, young Minister for Finance the 31 years. These two personalities whose career depended on Haider quickly will enter in conflict with their leader as the results of the local elections are increasingly bad for the FPÖ. Haider rejects the responsibility for it on the government but its ministers make body around the chancellor.

With the convention of Knittelfeld, three members FPÖ of the government are obliged to resign.

With the elections of November 2002, the ÖVP gains a historical and bright victory with 42,27% of the votes. The FPÖ crumbles to 10,16% of the voices (- 17 points). The coalition loses 7 seats in all but remains majority. It is then renewed in February 2003.

In September 2003, at the time of the regional elections, the FPÖ is preceded by the ecologists. The party is thus rolled when on March 7th, 2004 the election of the governor of Carinthie is profiled. But against any waiting, Haider obtains the relative majority of the voices with 42,5% of the votes. There still, against any waiting, the ÖVP, refusing to join him, it finds an ally unexpected among social democrats to find his post of governor.

With the European elections of 2004, the FPÖ reaches only 6% of the voices.

April 4th, 2005, Haider makes secession and founds a new party, the Bündnis Zukunft Österreich (BZÖ) (Alliance for the future of Austria). Wishing to continue alliance with the Austrian Popular party (ÖVP) of the chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel, it leaves the FPÖ to the partisans of a return of this party in the opposition. Ursula Haubner, Minister for the social Affairs, elected with 79% of the voices in 2004, resigned of the party to join the BZÖ. Six ministers FPÖ passed to the BZÖ.

At the time of the last congress with Salzburg, in April 2005, the FPÖ carried to the presidency Heinz-Christian Strache (represented on the poster supra ). 35 years old, Heinz-Christian Strache, chief of the FPÖ of the capital, Vienna, and regarded as a representative of the hardest wing of the right-hand side, obtained 90,1% of the 431 deputy present voices. To the advertisement of the result, it was carried triumphs over it with the podium by several delegates. He spoke about Haider as of a “Michael Jackson of the interior policy which changed so much that its close relations do not recognize it any more”. He as declared as Vienna should not become Istanbul (cf posts) and that the European Union is not fatherland . He also asked the 13 Député S of the FPÖ at the Parliament of to subscribe only to the bills favorable to Austria .

March 6th, 2006, the FPÖ launches a campaign entitled " Stoppt den Have-Wahnsinn! " (" Not with the madness of Europe! ") for a referendum against the European Union, the adhesion of the Turkey to the European Union and against Moslem immigration. The objective is to obtain for this popular request, launched under the slogan " Österreich bleib Frei! " (" Austria, remains free! "), the signature of 100.000 Austrians, which will oblige the Parliament to discuss it. According to a survey, 80% of the Austrians are opposed to the accession of Turkey.

With the legislative elections of October 1st 2006, the party obtains 11,2% of the voices and 21 seats, that is to say a better result than in 2002, before the scission. But the constitution of a great coalition right-hand side-left, which succeeds in January 2007, however definitively rejects it into the opposition.

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