Austrian vice-chancellor and ÖVP leader Josef Pröll had called for the deputy's "immediate resignation from all political posts," describing his behaviour as "unacceptable".
On 28 November 2008 he was elected as new federal party chairman by 89.6% of delegates at a party conference in Wels.
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