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Austria: "Yuppie fascist" elected governor

01 March 1999

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Jorg Haider, the leader of the far-right Freiheitliche Parti Osterreichs (FPO, Freedom Party), won 42% of the vote in provincial elections in March to claim his first outright victory in an Austrian election. He was elected in Klagenfurt as governor of his southern power base of Carinthia in April. In 1991 he had been forced to resign as governor of the province after expressing his admiration for the employment policies of the Third Reich. Haider ran a racist campaign in which he promised to expel all jobless immigrants. He also warned against the EU's expansion into central and eastern Europe. The elections, in three of Austria's nine states, saw the FPO make gains in the Tyrol and maintain their vote in Salzburg. The FPO will now be able to count on the votes of 16 members in the 36-member regional parliament, making his party the largest force. In the 1995 general election the FPO gained 22% of the national vote to become Austria's third largest party.

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