Global Austria
| ,Annual review
Austria 2010
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Presidential Elections
In April 2010, Heinz Fischer (SPÖ) was reelected for president. In Austria, a president can be reelected once after a six-year term. There were two competitors—Barbara Rosenkranz, a very right-wing FPÖ-MP, and Rudolf Gehring from an ultra-conservative, reactionary, very small political party called Christliche Partei Österreichs (Christian Party of Austria). There was no candidate from ÖVP or Grüne. Fischer got 79.3 percent, Rosenkranz 15.2, and Gehring 5.4.
Dr. Karl Renner |
1945-1950 |
Dr. Theodor Körner |
1951-1957 |
Dr. Adolf Schärf |
1957-1965 |
Dr. h. c. Franz Jonas |
1965-1974 |
Dr. Rudolf Kirchschläger |
1974-1986 |
Dr. Kurt Waldheim |
1986-1992 |
Dr. Thomas Klestil |
1992-2004 |
Dr. Heinz Fischer |
since 2004 |
The most controversial president was Kurt Waldheim; his election campaign in 1986 was overshadowed by a discussion about his Nazi past in which once again the Austrian anti-Semitism could be seen. Waldheim, UN general secretary from 1971-81, had published his memoirs “Im Glaspalast der Weltpol...
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