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MFG Austria – People Freedom Fundamental Rights
Political party in Austria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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MFG Austria – People Freedom Fundamental Rights (German: MFG Österreich – Menschen Freiheit Grundrechte, MFG) is a minor political party in Austria. The party is often described by media outlets as the "anti-vaccination" or "vaccine-critical" and its voters have been described as following or spreading conspiracy theories.[1][2][3][4] The party claims to have 4,000 members.[5]
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In the 2021 Upper Austrian state election, the party achieved 6.23% of the votes cast and will thus be represented with 3 seats in the Upper Austrian Landtag.[6] It is strongly represented in Upper Austria, especially in the Ried im Innkreis District, where after it was founded, local groups formed in eight communities: Aurolzmünster, Eberschwang, Geinberg, Gurten, Ried im Innkreis, Sankt Martin im Innkreis, Utzenaich and Waldzell. With Joachim Aigner, the top candidate for the 2021 Upper Austrian state election also comes from the Ried District.[7] The party got its best results in communities with many unvaccinated people.[8]
The party scored a major election result in the January 2022 municipal election in Waidhofen an der Ybbs in Lower Austria, winning more than 17% of the vote. In the municipal elections in Tyrol in February 2022, the party competed in 50 of 274 municipalities, winning seats in 47 of them and averaging about 10% of the vote. It has also setting up leadership and organizational structures in all 9 federal states and competed in the 2022 Austrian presidential election with party leader Michael Brunner.[citation needed]
In the 2024 European parliament election in Austria, the party did not run a candidate list. In the 2024 Austrian legislative election, the party received 0.4% of the vote and did worse than fellow anti-vaccination party Madeleine Petrovic List.[9]
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Leadership
- Party chairman: Michael Brunner
- Deputy Party Chairman: Christian Fiala
- Secretary General / Spokesperson: Gerold Beneder
- Financial advisor: Gerhard Pöttler
- Secretary: Dagmar Häusler
- Deputy Secretary: Gabriele Safran[10]
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