Federal Electoral Authority

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The Austrian federal electoral authority is a collegial authority that is not subject to instructions and is responsible for the top management of nationwide elections (election of the National Council , the Federal President and the European Parliament ) and the implementation of referendums and polls at the federal level. It also participates in the implementation of the referendums and European citizens' initiatives .

tasks

The legal basis for the establishment of the federal electoral authority and the appointment of its members are in particular § 12 , § 14 and § 15 of the National Council election regulations . The federal electoral authority is set up at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and, in addition to the interior minister as chairman, consists of fifteen representatives of the parties represented in the National Council and two judges. The members are appointed by the Federal Government (Council of Ministers), whereby the parties have the right to make proposals with regard to the representatives they are entitled to.

The federal electoral authority, as the highest electoral authority, has to decide, among other things, whether the campaigning parties meet the requirements necessary for the candidacy and with what name and in what order they appear on the voting slip.

history

For the first time since the establishment of the federal electoral authority, on the occasion of the National Council elections in 2006, a source of conflict was the fact that the seat that the Freedom Party was entitled to in the assembly was no longer awarded to the FPÖ , but to the FPÖ renegades under Jörg Haider in 2005, the new Alliance Future Austria (BZÖ) party . Two legal opinions and the existing judicature were named as decisive for the decision of the Council of Ministers of the ÖVP-BZÖ government .

In the course of the Federal President's election in Austria in 2016 , the second ballot had to be repeated.

National Council election 2019

The constituent meeting of the federal electoral authority for the 2019 National Council election took place on July 30, 2019. In addition to the 15 representatives nominated by the parties, the Vice-Presidents of the Higher Regional Court of Vienna Gabriele Fink-Hopf and Meinrad Handstanger of the Administrative Court were assessors. The Chairman of the Federal Electoral Authority and Federal Returning Officer was the then Interior Minister Wolfgang Peschorn , who has three deputies. The ÖVP sent Karl Nehammer , Wolfgang Gerstl , the former club director Werner Zögernitz, attorney Karl Schön and Romed Perfler (board member of the Political Academy). The SPÖ nominated Andrea Brunner , Raphael Sternfeld (Head of Communications of the Vienna SPÖ), the deputy club director Peter Pointner and club secretary Monika Juch. The FPÖ is represented by Johannes Hübner , Norbert Nemeth , Bernd Saurer and club representative Heimo Probst. NEOS is represented by lawyer Karl-Arthur Arlamovsky, NOW sent by Susanne Giendl. The Greens' confidante is Federal-State Coordinator Thomas Sperlich, while that of the KPÖ Ingram Riss.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wiener Zeitung : BZÖ receives seat in the federal electoral authority , August 21, 2006, accessed on March 26, 2016
  2. ^ FPÖ sent Huebner again to the federal electoral authority. July 30, 2019, accessed July 31, 2019 .