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VIENNA (Reuters) - A senior member of Austria's far-right Freedom Party sees "nothing insurmountable" in the ruling Social Democrats' new preconditions for any future coalition talks, he said in ...
The Austrian Social Democratic Party was founded just days before the final liberation of Vienna by the Soviet army. The leadership was taken by right-wingers Karl Renner and Adolf Schärf.
Less than a week after regional elections in the Austrian state of Burgenland, the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) has concluded a coalition with the extreme right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ).
A day before Austrians head to the polls, the Social Democratic (SPÖ) lead candidate Andreas Babler called the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) a danger to democracy in an address to ...
Austria's lower house of parliament passed a bill Wednesday that enables law enforcement and intelligence agencies to monitor ...
Following the failure of talks on a three-way coalition in Austria, the conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the Social Democrats (SPÖ) want to continue one-on-one coalition talks.
Austria’s opposition Social Democrats won nationwide elections on Sunday, swinging the country to the center-left after more than six years of influence by the extreme right, final unofficial ...
The Social Democrats took 35.7% of the vote, or 68 seats in the lower house of Parliament, to 34.2 %, or 66 seats, for the People’s Party, according to provisional results. Opinion polls during the ...
Austria's center-left Social Democrats have elected Hans Peter Doskozil as their new party leader Saturday, hoping to turn around the party's fortunes ahead of expected parliamentary elections in ...
The Social Democrats have led many of Austria's post-World War II administrations but last served in government in 2017. In Austria's last parliamentary election in 2019, it won 21.2% of the vote ...
In Austria, the elections really are rigged — by incompetence. The Social Democrats (SPÖ) said they’d declared the wrong candidate as the winner of a nail-biting party election over the weekend.
A projection for ORF public television, based on counting of more than half the votes, put support for the Freedom Party at 29.2% and Chancellor Karl Nehammer's Austrian People's Party at 26.3%.