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5 unusual facts about Social Democratic Party of Austria


Freda Meissner-Blau

She came into contact with numerous figures in the union movement and leaders within the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPO).

Heinz Schaden

Heinz Schaden (born April 29, 1954) is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), and the current mayor of Salzburg.

Heinz Traimer

His clients included the automobile club ARBÖ, the electronics company Kapsch, the city of Vienna, the Social Democratic Party and private customers.

Siegfried Kampl

He attributed his decision not to resign partly to what he called the "provocative" manner in which Federal Council President Georg Pehm (a Social Democrat) had demanded he do so.

Xokonoschtletl Gómora

He was supported by Austrian legislators too, the members of the Social Democratic Party of Austria, led by Peter Schieder (chairman of the parliamentary committee of Foreign Policy), presented a proposal to return the headdress in 2005.


Demographics of Austria

The Social Democratic Party long ago shed its anticlerical stance.

Graz local election, 2008

Apart from the five parties present in the municipal council – the Austrian People's Party, the Social Democratic Party of Austria, the Communist Party of Austria, the Freedom Party of Austria and the Greens – The Green Alternative – the Alliance for the Future of Austria also contested the election.

Josef Klaus

Josef Klaus started many reforms and is remembered for administrating the government efficiently, but he lost the 1970 election against Bruno Kreisky (SPÖ), who was his successor as Chancellor.

Recognition of same-sex unions in Austria

The Greens, the Social Democrats (SPÖ), and the NEOS support same-sex marriage.


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