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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

Freedom Party (FPOe)

The leader of Austria's Freedom Party, Herbert Kickl, addresses a news conference, in Vienna, Austria, on January 7, 2025. (AP/ Heinz-Peter Bader)
January 7, 2025, 8:28 pm
Far-right leader tasked with forming Austria government pledges to ‘govern honestly’
Herbert Kickl – whose Freedom Party won September election, but was initially shunned by other factions – says he is prepared for new elections if coalition talks fail
By Philipp Jenne and Geir Moulson
Austrian Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen gives a press statement at the Presidential Chancellery after his meeting with Austrian Chancellor and leader of Austria's People's Party (OeVP) Karl Nehammer (not pictured) in Vienna on January 5, 2025 (Photo by Alex HALADA / AFP)
January 6, 2025, 11:58 am
Far right set to be tasked with forming new government in Austria
President to meet with Freedom Party leader Herbert Kickl after chancellor resigned following collapse of coalition talks between conservatives and center left
By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN
MP of Austria's Freedom Party (FPOe) Walter Rosenkranz delivers a speech after his election as new parliament president in the Austrian Parliament in Vienna on October 24, 2024. (Alex HALADA / AFP)
November 24, 2024, 6:53 pm
Austrian far-right party shows strength with state election win in Styria
Freedom Party’s victory is show of force for the Russia-friendly faction, adds to pressure on parties trying to form a national government
By Francois Murphy
Screen capture from video of far-right speaker of Austria's lower house of parliament FPO's Walther Rosenkranz faces Jewish protesters who stopped him from laying a wreath at a Holocaust memorial in Vienna, November 8, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 10, 2024, 8:04 am
Jewish students prevent Austrian far-right speaker from laying Kristallnacht wreath
Forming cordon, Vienna protesters tell FPO party’s Rosenkranz ‘we do not want you to spit in our ancestors’ faces’; he eventually leaves, saying he’ll yield to their ‘violence’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Herbert Kickl (C), leader and top candidate of right-wing populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPOe) is celebrated by supporters at the party's election event after exit poll numbers were announced at the Stiegl-Ambulanz restaurant in Vienna, Austria on September 29, 2024. (Alex Halada/AFP)
October 1, 2024, 8:52 pm
Disgruntled over immigration, ailing economy, Austrians handed victory to far-right party
Despite its winning 29% of vote, rivals refuse to enter coalition with Freedom Party, with a video surfacing on voting day of members at recent funeral where Nazi SS song was sung
By Louis van Boxel-Woolf
Herbert Kickl, leader and top candidate of right-wing populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPOe), takes part in a TV debate at the parliament after exit poll numbers were announced in Vienna on September 29, 2024. (Alex HALADA / AFP)
September 30, 2024, 7:23 pm
After election win, Austrian far right seeks path to power through rivals’ blockade
Herbert Kickl led his Freedom Party to win biggest slice of votes, but the 29% he scored requires cooperating with other parties, almost all of whom say they won’t work with him
By Francois Murphy
The chairman and top candidate of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPOe) for the Austrian National Council (Nationalrat) election Herbert Kickl waves to his audience after kicking off his party's electoral campaign, in Graz, Styria, on September 7, 2024. (Alex HALADA / AFP)
September 23, 2024, 3:19 pm
Austria sees tight election race, with far-right polling ahead but short of majority
Freedom Party (FPOe) predicted to secure 27% in next week’s vote, but may struggle to find partners willing to join a government it leads
By Anne BEADE
Co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice Weidel (L) and co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Tino Chrupalla react after first exit polls after the European Parliament elections in Berlin, on June 9, 2024. (Ralf Hirschberger / AFP)
June 10, 2024, 3:11 pm
Germans say far-right AfD lacks legitimacy, even after its European Parliament gains
Amid a nationalist swell, AfD rises 5 percentage points but remains too controversial for widespread public support – even for some small-town sympathizers
By Canaan Lidor
Supporters wave Austrian flags during the final election campaign event of the right-wing Freedom Party (FPOE) for the European elections in Vienna, Austria, May 24, 2019 (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, file)
September 2, 2023, 9:04 am
Alarm over Austria far-right Freedom Party’s ‘frightening’ video glorifying Nazi past
As party soars in polls, clip promotes extremist conspiracy theory that white Europeans are being replaced by migrants; video features balcony where Hitler gave speech
By KIYOKO METZLER
Austria's President Alexander Van der Bellen and his wife Doris speak to the media in front of a polling station in Vienna, during the presidential elections on October 9, 2022. (Joe Klamar / AFP)
October 9, 2022, 9:27 pm
Austrian president seen cruising to victory over far-right challenger
Projections show Alexander Van der Bellen winning over 55%, avoiding runoff and securing second six-year term, with Freedom Party’s Rosenkranz forecast to get 18% of ballots
By Philipp Jenne and Geir Moulson
The Austrian Federal Chancellery raised the Israeli flag (Up L) as a sign of solidarity, in Vienna on May 14, 2021. (HELMUT FOHRINGER / APA / AFP)
May 14, 2021, 9:18 pm
Austria, Slovenia fly Israeli flags in show of support
‘Nothing justifies terrorist rocket fire from Gaza,’ top Vienna diplomat says as EU countries take stand for security of Jewish state amid conflict with Hamas
By AFP
In this photo taken on May 6, 2019 Austria's Vice-Chancellor and chairman of the Freedom Party FPOe Heinz-Christian Strache gives a press conference at the prime minister's office in Budapest (ATTILA KISBENEDEK / AFP)
June 4, 2020, 11:06 am
Former Austrian vice chancellor accused of writing anti-Semitic book dedication
Heinz-Christian Strache apparently penned note on ‘convoluted and power-hungry Jewish worldview’ in copy of book promoting Jew-hatred; ex-Freedom Party member says doesn’t recall
By Toby Axelrod
New Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz listen during the swearing-in ceremony of the new Austrian government led by a conservative Austrian People's Party, OEVP, and the Austrian Green party in Vienna, Austria, Jan. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
January 7, 2020, 3:22 pm
Austria’s Kurz sworn in as chancellor, completing comeback
After 2019 ouster by no-confidence vote, Kurz to lead country’s first female-majority cabinet as he reclaims the title of the world’s youngest serving head of government
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Heinz-Christian Strache, Austria's former vice-chancellor and disgraced former leader of the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe), gives a statement to the press in Vienna on October 1, 2019. (Joe Klamar/AFP)
December 13, 2019, 7:52 pm
Austrian far-right boots scandal-plagued ex-leader
After drop in support at polls and series of embarrassing revelations, Freedom Party says ‘Strache chapter being definitively closed’
By AFP
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, right, and Austrian vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, of the Freedom Party, at a special meeting of the Austrian National Assembly at the temporary parliamentary assembly hall at Vienna Castle on December 20, 2017. (AFP/ APA / ROLAND SCHLAGER)
December 12, 2019, 1:32 pm
Austrian parliament sets stage for overwhelming condemnation of BDS
All five parties represented in National Council co-sponsor resolution saying anti-Israel boycott movement ’employs anti-Semitic patterns’
By Raphael Ahren
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