Red-blue coalition
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As red and blue coalition or blue-red coalition is known in Austria a coalition between the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) and the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ).
Federal level
After lengthy coalition negotiations with the ÖVP, the SPÖ under Bruno Kreisky, with the support of the FPÖ under Friedrich Peter, formed a minority government after the National Council election in 1970 . The price for the FPÖ's support was a change in the electoral law that put smaller parties like the FPÖ at that time less disadvantaged and an associated increase in the number of seats in the National Council.
An actual SPÖ-FPÖ government coalition has only emerged once at the federal level from 1983 to 1987 under Chancellors Fred Sinowatz and Franz Vranitzky and Vice Chancellor Norbert Steger (FPÖ). When the liberal course of the FPÖ was ended in 1986 with the election of Jörg Haider as federal party chairman, the coalition also broke up, as Haider was an emphatically nationalist and right-wing populist.
State level
Carinthia
Even after the state elections in Carinthia in 2004 , a blue-red coalition was formed - with the FPÖ as the larger and the SPÖ as the junior partner - the Social Democrats elected Jörg Haider as governor . The alliance was also referred to in the press as the "Chianti coalition" because Haider and the SPÖ state party chairman Peter Ambrozy agreed to work together over a glass of Tuscan red wine . After the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) split off from the FPÖ, it became an orange-red coalition .
Burgenland
After the state elections in Burgenland in 2015 , the SPÖ and FPÖ agreed on a joint government . It was highly controversial within the SPÖ.After the Ibiza affair in May 2019, the next regular state election in 2020 was brought forward by three months to January 2020.
Community level
In several larger and smaller cities in Austria, red-blue alliances reacted or governed. These include, for example, the Upper Austrian state capital Linz , the Carinthian state capital Klagenfurt and the Lower Austrian district capital Stockerau .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Preglau : Upheaval in political culture in Austria: from the black-blue / orange turnaround in 2000 via the red-black Interregnum 2006-2017 to black / turquoise-blue 2.0. University of Innsbruck, December 6, 2019, p. 222.
- ^ A b Peter Mühlbauer : Burgenland: New edition of the Chianti coalition . Telepolis, June 5, 2015, accessed the same day.
- ↑ Burgenland: Social Democrats rule together with the FPÖ - really now . Spiegel Online, June 5, 2015, accessed on the same day.
- ↑ ZEIT ONLINE: SPÖ: Social Democrats end coalition with the FPÖ . In: The time . May 19, 2019, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed May 19, 2019]).
- ↑ New elections: Doskozil relies on “Burgenland first” In: bvz.at, May 22, 2019, accessed on December 10, 2019.
- ^ Coalition of the SPÖ with the FPÖ possible? In: news.at, May 31, 2019, accessed on December 11, 2019.