Topic: - on September 12, 2002 at 12:26:11 PM CEST
Haider regains party leadership
At a meeting of the party's executive committee in Linz, party leaders chose to reinstate Mr Haider to the post. The decision came less than two-and-a-half years after he stepped down as part of a deal that brought the party into a coalition with the centrist People's party.
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Topic: - on September 12, 2002 at 12:22:48 PM CEST
Haider may once again lead his party
Extreme right leader Jörg Haider was poised to make a triumphant return to the helm of his Freedom Party when it met yesterday to try to mend a growing rift that toppled Austria's coalition government at the weekend. Haider was forced to step down as party leader in 2000 after an international uproar over his antisemitic and other racist statements.
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Topic: - on September 11, 2002 at 11:44:32 PM CEST
Chancellor of Austria wants new elections
- Austria's chancellor called Monday for new elections to end a political crisis after four key leaders of the Freedom Party resigned, saying a conflict with far-rightist Joerg Haider had made the party's work impossible.
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Topic: - on September 11, 2002 at 11:42:02 PM CEST
Haider keeps options open
Haider told Austrian television on Monday he would not stand as party chairman, saying he was the wrong man after leading a rank-and-file revolt that ousted Vice Chancellor and party chairwoman Susanne Riess-Passer and paved the way for new elections as early as November.
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Topic: - on September 11, 2002 at 11:40:25 PM CEST
Austrian press finds a likely suspect
For Joerg Haider, politics in general and his party in particular are, above all, an ego trip.
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Topic: - on September 11, 2002 at 11:38:45 PM CEST
Austria waits for Haider comeback
We will see what discussions in the next weeks bring.
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Topic: - on September 11, 2002 at 11:37:21 PM CEST
Far-right discovers winning is not everything
Impassioned rhetoric is one thing; the humdrum business of government another, Europe's populist and rightwing politicians are starting to discover. The pressures that led Jörg Haider to pull the plug this week on his Freedom party's participation in Austria's ruling coalition are likely to be felt by other parties that rose to prominence on a wave of discontent with mainstream politics.
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Topic: - on September 11, 2002 at 11:35:15 PM CEST
Austria's Right-wing split
AUSTRIA'S conservative People's Party is pulling out of its coalition with the Freedom Party, paving the way for elections before year's end. "Austria needs a stable government" and politicians "with solutions and not power struggles", PP leader Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel said.
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Topic: - on September 11, 2002 at 11:33:17 PM CEST
Another "Turn" in Austria?
Jörg Haider, the constant risk factor in Austrian politics, has brought down the government. Those who have been smoking the oft-cited peace pipe with the Carinthian governor have had it blow up in their faces. But, this time, even Haider has been hurt. He has demolished the very government he helped build and it is more obvious than ever that he cannot be relied upon.
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Topic: - on September 11, 2002 at 11:31:52 PM CEST
Haider to Lead Freedom Party Again
The success of the Haider-led Freedom Party in 1999 elections generated anxiety abroad due to anti-foreigner and anti-European comments made by party officials and to Haider's remarks in support of Adolf Hitler's employment policy. The European Union briefly slapped sanctions on Austria in 2000 to protest that party's role in the government.
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Topic: - on September 11, 2002 at 11:29:51 PM CEST
Haider to Lead Freedom Party Again
Austria's Freedom Party nominated far-rightist Joerg Haider on Wednesday to be its leader once again following a party feud that led to the resignation of key leaders and the collapse of the governing coalition. Haider's nomination comes less than 2 1/2 years after he resigned from the post as part of a deal that brought the party into a coalition with the centrist People's Party. His confirmation as party chief at a special convention Sept. 20 is considered certain.
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Topic: - on September 11, 2002 at 11:28:15 PM CEST
Austrian leader calls early elections after Haider feud
The Austrian chancellor, Wolfgang Schuessel, on Monday called early elections to end a government crisis brought on by a feud in Joerg Haider's Freedom Party, Schuessel's far-right coalition partner.
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