nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/aeba5800f5e231e9 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250116s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/aeba5800f5e231e9 doi eng 342 23 Lachmayer, Konrad Author aut Austria’s Populist Turn - Constitutional Conventions, Federalism and Resilience Lachmayer, Konrad Verfassungsblog 2025-01-16 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier With the elections in September 2024, the populist Freedom Party (FPÖ) became the strongest party in Austria for the first time. In January 2025, hopes of averting populism quickly faded when Austria’s Federal President Alexander van der Bellen was left with no choice other than giving the FPÖ a mandate to form a government. In this context, two aspects stand out: the role of constitutional conventions in recent months and the political change in the Bundesländer (states). CC BY-SA 4.0 Austria FPÖ Kickl Herbert | 1968– | Politiker; Minister Populism constitutional convention federalism (DE-588)1148911561 gnd Kickl Herbert | 1968– | Politiker; Minister Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/austrias-populist-turn/ raw object