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Austria:Freedom Party at crossroads

01 January 1991

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Austria:Freedom Party at crossroads
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Five MPs from Austria's far-Right Freedom Party have left to form
a rival parliamentary faction in protest at what they describe
as the increasingly xenophobic and extremist positions of party
leader, Jorg Haider.
Haiders' `Austria First' petition (see Bulletin No 2) was
signed by 417,000 people, far less than the half-a-million Haider
had anticipated.Although commentators are now predicting that the
Freedom Party is in terminal decline, Mr Haider has managed, by
collecting more than 100,000 signatures, to force a parliamentary
debate.
Also, in January, the Freedom Party won 20 per cent, nearly
doubling its share of the vote, in local elections in Graz,
Austria's second largest city (Jewish Chronicle 29.1.93,
Independent 3.2.93, 5.2.93).

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