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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/aeba5800f5e231e9 https://verfassungsblog.de/austrias-populist-turn/ Austria’s Populist Turn - Constitutional Conventions, Federalism and Resilience Lachmayer, Konrad eng 2025-01-16 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Austria FPÖ Kickl Herbert | 1968– | Politiker; Minister Populism constitutional convention federalism Kickl Herbert | 1968– | Politiker; Minister Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 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).