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Austria: FPO splits

01 March 1993

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The far-right Freiheitliche Partei Osterreichs (FPO), or Freedom Party, has split following the departure of five of their MPs, including deputy-leader Heide Schmidt. They have formed a rival parliamentary faction, the Liberal Forum, in protest at the increasingly xenophobic and extremist positions of party leader, Jorg Haider.

The split follows the failure of Haider's petition "Austria First", which demands an immediate halt to immigration and the segregation of foreign children, to attain the million signatures that he predicted. Nonetheless, the petition was signed by 417 000 people and will be the subject of a parliamentary debate. In February, almost a quarter of a million people took part in a demonstration in Vienna to protest at the petition and its attempt to provoke racial violence.

European 25.2.93; IRR European Race Audit No.3; Voice 2.2.93.

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