Madeleine Petrovic

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Madeleine Petrovic (born June 25, 1956 in Vienna , maiden name Demand ) is an Austrian politician of the party The Greens - The Green Alternative . From 1994 to March 1996 she was federal spokeswoman for the Greens and from 2002 to 2015 state spokeswoman for the Greens in Lower Austria .

education and profession

The daughter of a freight forwarder attended grammar school after primary school and graduated in 1974. She then studied law at the University of Vienna , where she qualified as a Dr. iur. PhD . She then studied business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business ( Mag. Rer. Soc. Oec. 1982) and completed additional foreign language training. Petrovic is a certified court interpreter for English (University of Vienna) and has language degrees from the Universities of Michigan (English) and Brussels (French). She was a study assistant at the Institute for Roman Law and Ancient Legal History at the University of Vienna. In 1984 she was a civil servant at the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.

politics

Madeleine Petrovic was active in the district group of the Greens in Döbling from 1986 to 1987 . In 1987 she was elected to the provincial executive committee of the Green Alternative Vienna and on November 5, 1990 she became a member of the National Council , of which she was a member until April 23, 2003. During her tenure in parliament, she was a member of various committees, the longest she was a member of the Constitutional and Equal Treatment Committees. In 1992, Petrovic was elected chairwoman of the Green Parliamentary Club , and in 1994 and 1995 she was the top candidate in the National Council elections. On March 11, 1993, at 10 hours and 35 minutes, she gave the longest speech in the history of the Austrian National Council. This record was only exceeded on December 17, 2010 by her party colleague Werner Kogler , albeit in the budget committee. The topic was an EU report on the agreement on jute and jute products from 1989. The aim of the speech marathon was to delay the following agenda item (Tropical Timber Act). On December 5, 1993, she was the target of a letter bomb attack by Franz Fuchs . The bomb was discovered in time and could be defused.

Petrovic, who had also been federal spokeswoman from 1994, suffered a defeat in the 1995 National Council election and was replaced in this position by Christoph Chorherr in 1996 . In 1999, Alexander Van der Bellen also took over the role of club chairman in parliament, and Petrovic was subsequently his deputy. She was elected deputy federal spokeswoman for the Greens in 2001, and in 2003 she moved from parliament to the Lower Austrian state parliament . She ran as the top candidate in the state elections in Lower Austria in 2008 , but failed because of the election goal of joining the state government and suffered slight losses with the Greens. Petrovic subsequently announced that he would no longer run for the position of Deputy Federal Spokeswoman for the Greens. On May 31, 2008, Maria Vassilakou was elected as her successor.

In 2013, Petrovic decided to run for the European elections. Since she only came fifth on the list at the Federal Congress of the Greens on December 1, 2013, she decided a short time later to lead a preferential election campaign with the help of her regional group, which caused considerable criticism, especially because that regional group had one Johannes Voggenhuber's preferential vote campaign in the 2009 European elections had strictly rejected. In the end, she only received 11,168 of the 20,505 preferred votes required (5% of the 410,089 votes cast for the Greens) and therefore missed entry into the EU Parliament.

After the state elections in Lower Austria in 2018 , she left the state parliament.

Since the beginning of July 2020 she has been working as an animal welfare expert in the Federal Ministry for Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection .

Private

Madeleine Petrovic lives in Gloggnitz in southern Lower Austria . On May 9, 2008, she was elected President of the independent Vienna Animal Welfare Association.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Madeleine Petrovic  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ orf.at - Greens: 84 percent vote for Helga Krismer . Article dated November 15, 2015, accessed November 15, 2015.
  2. ↑ Petrovic resigns as Van der Bellen vice-president . In: The Standard . May 9, 2008
  3. ↑ Petrovic grants green club chairmanship at the end of the year , derStandard.at, October 22, 2013.
  4. ↑ Greens: Lunacek's top candidate in EU elections , derStandard.at, December 1, 2013.
  5. ↑ Nina Weißensteiner: EU election: Green displeasure with Petrovic's fighting spirit , Der Standard, December 6, 2013.
  6. ^ Final round in Voggenhuber poker , derStandard.at, January 29, 2009.
  7. ↑ 2014 European elections - preferred votes obtained , bmi.gv.at, accessed on June 13, 2014.
  8. ↑ 2014 European elections, final result , bmi.gv.at, accessed on June 13, 2014.
  9. ^ Hugo Müllner: Anschober brings ex-Greens boss Petrovic for animal welfare. In: Tyrolean daily newspaper. July 30, 2020, accessed July 31, 2020 .
  10. ^ Animal welfare association: Petrovic new president . In: ORF . May 10, 2008
  11. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Petrovic, Madeleine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Demand, Madeleine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (Greens), member of the state parliament, member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna