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  Austria - GOVERNMENT
Executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government were established by the 1920 constitution, with the executive branch subordinate to the legislative branch.
In the March 1989 provincial election in Carinthia, the FPÖ displaced the ÖVP as the second strongest party, and Haider was elected governor of the province with votes from the ÖVP.
Austria did not take neutrality to mean that it should occupy a moral middle ground between the democratic countries of the West and the totalitarian states of the East during the Cold War period.
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 Anschluss - Avoo - Ask Us A Question - The Anschluss[1] (German: connection, or political union), also known as the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Austria became the province of Ostmark, and Seyss-Inquart was appointed Governor.
Austria is reminded, however that she has a responsibility, which she cannot evade, for participation in the war at the side of Hitlerite Germany, and that in the final settlement account will inevitably be taken of her own contribution to her liberation.
The Austrian reply to allegations during the 1986 Presidential election campaign that successful candidate and former UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim had been a member of the Nazi party and of the infamous SA (he was later absolved of direct involvement in war crimes) was that scrutiny was an unwelcome intervention in the country's internal affairs.
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 Austria
Although the Duchy of Austria was just one of the duchies and lands that the Habsburgs eventually acquired in the eastern Alpine-Danubian region, the Habsburgs became known as the House of Austria after the Swiss peasantry ousted them from their original family seat in Habichtsburg in the Swiss canton of Aargau in 1386.
Austria's decision to organize itself as a unitary state also set the terms for dealing with the German nationalists and liberals sitting in Frankfurt: Austria would enter a unified Germany with all of its territories, not merely the German and Bohemian portions.
Austria received the contiguous German or German-dominated territories of Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Tirol (north of the Brenner Pass), Salzburg, and Vorarlberg, as well as a slice of western Hungary that became the province of Burgenland.
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 Austrian Press & Information Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Austria's constitutional law comprises the Federal Constitution, in the strict sense of the term, a multitude of constitutional acts and state treaties.
Austria is involved in international matters at different levels: after the signing of the State Treaty in May 1955, and the decision in favour of permanent neutrality, Austria joined the UN at the end of 1955, and the Council of Europe in 1956.
Austria's international role in the nineties is also attested to by other events: membership of the UN Security Council in 1991/92, coincided with the Gulf War and the incipient conflict in Yugoslavia.
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 Austria Regional Country Austria
Austria (German Österreich), republic in central Europe, bounded on the north by the Czech Republic; on the northeast by Slovakia; on the east by Hungary; on the south by Slovenia, Italy, and Switzerland; and on the west by Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Germany.
Austria is a democratic, federal republic governed according to the constitution of 1920, as amended in 1929 and subsequently modified.
Elections to the Nationalrat in 1956, 1959, and 1962 resulted in little change in the relative strength of the two main parties.
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 Federal Chancellary of Austria
The election reference date is mainly relevant to all candidates or groups whose nominations have not been signed by three Members of Parliament.
Austria was the first foreign country to which Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány paid an official visit (11 July 2006) after his re-election as head of government.
The representative of the Chinese embassy in Austria, Embassy Counsellor Liang, emphasised that this was the moment to present the exhibition as China was very open to new fields like architecture and was undergoing a radical transformation.
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 Austrian legislative election, 1971 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The elections to the Austrian National Council of 1971, held only one year after the 1970 elections, were the first after a reform of election law that increased the number of seats in parliament from 165 to 183.
Bruno Kreisky, leader of the SPÖ, had already led a minority cabinet since 1970, which had been tolerated by the FPÖ.
The outcome of the election was an absolute majority for Kreisky which held until 1983.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Austrian_legislative_election,_1971   (146 words)

  
 District Level Electoral Data on the Internet
We are in the process of generating codebooks for each of these elections files; in the meantime, the abbreviations used are taken directly from the on-line source.
When downloading results from national election authorities, users should be aware that a number of countries' websites are only compatible with Microsoft Explorer.
The link for “results” at the bottom of the page links to a page listing the various districts and the winning candidate; complete results for each district are then available by clicking on the district name.
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