Communist Party of Austria

The Communist Party of Austria (German: Kommunistische Partei Österreichs, KPÖ) is a communist party from Austria. It was established in 1918 and banned between 1933 and 1945, and it played an important role in the resistance against the Nazis and fascism. It today consists of communist hardliners as well as progressive young people trying to develop and establish new political models in society.

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German - Communist party - Austria - 1918 - 1933 - 1945 - Fascism

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It published a newspaper called Volksstimme (now Volksstimmen) and stands in elections. It lost representation in the federal parliament in 1959. After also losing its last representation in a state parliament (in Styria in 1970), it became a fringe movement of limited significance. At the National Council elections held on November 22, 2002, it won only 0.56% of the votes (27,568 of a total of 4,909,645 valid votes). This result was far from the limit of 4% that must be surpassed to obtain seats in the National Council. However, in 2003 it received a very exceptional 20% of the vote in local elections in Graz, and in 2005 it returned to its first state parliament in 35 years when it won 6.3% of the vote in Styria.

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1959 - Styria - 1970 - National Council - Elections held on November 22, 2002 - 2003 - Graz - 2005

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It is part of the New European Left Forum (NELF) and the Party of the European Left.

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New European Left Forum - European Left

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