Far-right FPÖ could become strongest force in the country for first time in postwar period
One of Europe’s oldest far-right parties, the FPÖ was founded in 1956. Despite being initially headed by a former Nazi functionary and SS officer, it was a relatively moderate liberal party until the mid-1980s, when it veered radically right under the firebrand leader Jörg Haider.
The party has twice been the junior partner in short-lived coalition governments with the conservative Austrian People’s party (ÖVP), after finishing second in the parliamentary elections of 1999 with 27% of the vote and third in 2017 with 26% of the vote.
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