Topic: - on November 25, 2002 at 10:46:23 PM CET
Austrian far-right party trounced, but could still assume coalition role
Austrian far-right leader Jorg Haider has announced his retirement from politics, but Austria-watchers may want to hold their applause for now. Haider made the announcement Monday, a day after his Freedom Party suffered a crushing defeat in national elections that gave a clear victory to the conservative People’s Party.
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Topic: - on November 25, 2002 at 9:26:21 PM CET
Haider's party trounced in polls
The Austrian voters on Sunday night dramatically rejected the far right, Freedom Party of Joerg Haider, whose political decline is now considered imminent. The Chancellor, Wolfgang Schuessel, and his moderate but centre-right Peoples' Party has emerged as the clear victor in the Parliamentary elections. The Freedom Party lost nearly two-thirds of its support. This gives the Peoples Party the largest share of votes in more than three decades.
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Topic: - on November 25, 2002 at 9:24:43 PM CET
Freedom Party urges Haider to stay
Austrian far-rightist Joerg Haider has declared he is sick of politics after his Freedom Party was trounced in elections. But party leaders have rejected his offer to quit and said they were willing to stay in government.
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Topic: - on November 25, 2002 at 9:20:21 PM CET
After Landslide Victory, People's Party Looking For Partner
Austria's incumbent Christian democratic People's Party scored a resounding victory in general elections yesterday but not enough to form a one-party government. The far-right Freedom Party suffered a huge loss of support, leading the party's best-known member, Joerg Haider, to announce his intention to resign as governor of Carinthia. As RFE/RL reports, the People's Party, at least in theory, can form a ruling coalition with any of the three other parties in parliament.
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Topic: - on November 25, 2002 at 7:36:42 PM CET
Haider plans to step down as governor, may leave politics
Haider's flashes of pro-Nazi sentiment and flamboyant exposes of corruption in other parties brought his Freedom Party from obscurity in the mid 1980s to unprecedented strength - it joined the present government coalition after becoming second in 1999 elections. But the same confrontational streak that attracted voters to Haider proved his party's undoing in Sunday's general election.
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Topic: - on November 25, 2002 at 7:10:55 PM CET
Far right Haider quits
Announcing his resignation, Haider said his party's showing reflected "mistrust in me and my policies" .
Joerg Haider, whose praise of Hitler and anti-foreigner rhetoric helped fuel the rise of his party into government, has quit in the wake of their disastrous showing in the Austrian general election.
¬> ITV
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Topic: - on November 25, 2002 at 7:08:51 PM CET
Austria's Haider Sick of Politics After Rout
Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider said Monday he was sick of politics and would resign from his regional governor's post after a crushing defeat in Sunday's snap elections left his Freedom Party in shambles.
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Topic: - on November 25, 2002 at 5:55:34 PM CET
EU welcomes far-right collapse in Austria, eyes wider trend
EU leaders and officials welcomed on Monday the Austrian far-right's election collapse, saying it lifts a cloud over EU expansion and marks a setback for extremists Europe-wide.
Analysts said the Freedom Party's defeat in polls Sunday could signal a reversal of the recent rise of anti-immigrant forces across Europe, triggered by the Austrian party's success three years ago.
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Topic: - on November 25, 2002 at 5:53:35 PM CET
Austrian leader's party makes large gains over far right peer
Voters have handed a clear victory to Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel's conservative party in the Austrian parliamentary elections. But his coalition partner, the anti-immigration party of Joerg Haider, was pounded at the polls, according to preliminary results.
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Topic: - on November 25, 2002 at 5:51:37 PM CET
Austrian People's Party wins, Haider's Freedom Party plummets
Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel's People's
Party (OVP) won parliamentary election in Austria Sunday but the votes for his coalition partner Freedom Party (FPO) plummeted.
"The result was unexpected but thank God it's a clear result," People's Party leader Schuessel said after results were announced. Schuessel now has the choice of choosing a coalition partner or trying to form a minority government.
¬> IRNA
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Topic: - on November 25, 2002 at 5:49:20 PM CET
Austrian Elections Are Sacred
Did his friendship with Saddam Hussein spoil triumph of the Austrian Fuhrer?
The results of the of the parliamentary elections in Austria aren’t great surprise on the whole. Unlike in 1999, when Joerg Haider with his Freedom Party rather unexpectedly settled down in the local political Olympus, the results of the parliamentary elections were more or less predictable.
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Topic: - on November 25, 2002 at 5:45:29 PM CET
Conservatives Win Big in Austrian Election
Austrian Chancellor Schüssel begins coalition talks today after his party won its biggest election victory in decades. The fate of the far-right Freedom Party, which suffered a crushing defeat, is still unclear.
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