VIENNA. President of the Austrian Parliament Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP) took his acronym on 2 October before leaving office on 24 October 2024. Austrian Turkish Cultural Society, TKG Think Tank He received the chairman and publisher Birol Kılıç and exchanged ideas.
Briefly touching on his relations with the Turkish community in Austria and his duties in the Lower Austrian ÖVP, from the Porr company in Lower Austria, the President of the Austrian Parliament, Wolfgang Sobotka, conveyed his greetings and best wishes. From now on, Wolfgan Sobotka will be responsible for the Political Academy of the Austrian People’s Party, which is a very important unit of the ÖVP Party. Sobotka’s official position as President of the Austrian Parliament officially ends on October 24, 2024.
Wolfgang Sobotka, a history teacher by profession, served as Federal Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Austria from April 2016 to December 2017. From 1998 to 2016 he was a member of the Lower Austrian state government as a minister, and from 2009 to 2016 he served as Deputy State. He has been President of the Austrian Parliament since 20 December 2017.
Austrian Parliament elects new president on 24 October 2024
The National Deputy Elections of the Austrian Parliament were held last September 29, 2024, and the right-wing party, known as FPÖ for short, received 28.09 percent of the votes and will elect the new parliament speaker with the newly elected MPs who will convene on October 24. According to established traditions in Austria, FPÖ, the party that received the most votes, has the right to nominate the President of the Austrian Parliament, whose representative power in Austria is second to the Presidency. Tradition is that the FPÖ party, which holds the majority of all MPs, nominates a candidate that everyone will accept. At this point, Norbert Hofer, who is currently the third president of the Austrian Parliament, is seen as the most likely FPÖ MP to be elected President of the Austrian Parliament, having received a passing grade from the SPÖ, ÖVP, NEOS and the Greens, with his independent management. The other two candidates are Walter Rosenkranz and Susaanne Fürts, two strong names of the FPÖ. Despite the voices that the SPÖ Party and the Greens do not want and will not elect a person from the FPÖ to the most prestigious position of the Republic of Austria as the speaker of the parliament, it is thought that they have little opportunity to say anything about Norbert Hofer since they have known him in recent years. The fact that for the first time the speaker of the parliament is from the FPÖ means that after the Second World War in Austria, all the important decision-making strings, especially in the parliament, were in the hands of the FPÖ Party.
Provisional final results of the elections held in Austria on September 29 are as follows:
The number of voters is 6,346,059.
A total of 4,902,460 votes were cast.
of these
4,855,998 of which were deemed valid,
46,462 votes were deemed invalid.
Valid votes were distributed to the campaigning parties as follows:
“Austrian Freedom Party”
1,403,497, or 28.9 percent,
“Karl Nehammer – The People’s Party”
1,277,949, or 26.3 percent,
“Social Democratic Party of Austria”
1,025,753 or 21.1 percent,
“Greens – Green Alternative”
397,679 or 8.2 percent,
“NEOS – The reform force for your new Austria”
442,544 or 9.1 percent,
“Beer Party”
97,804, or 2.0 percent,
“MFG – Austrian People – Freedom – Fundamental Rights”
19,678, or 0.4 percent,
“Yellow Party”
156, which is 0.0 percent,
“Madeleine Petrovic’i Listele”
28,226, or 0.6 percent,
“List GAZA – Voices against genocide”
19,309, or 0.4 percent
“Communist Party of Austria – KPÖ Plus”
115,696, or 2.4 percent,
“None”
27,707, or 0.6 percent.
Provisional final results, including all ballot box votes, will be determined by the provincial election authorities next Thursday and forwarded to the federal election authority for announcement.
2024-10-03 11:33:03