A lawmaker from the far-right Freedom Party has been elected as the new speaker of Austria’s parliament, weeks after the ...

Walter Rosenkranz has become the first member of the Freedom Party to be speaker, one of the country's highest-ranking ...

Walter Rosenkranz, from Austria's Freedom Party, becomes the first far-right speaker of the lower house, sparking debate due ...

For the first time, a representative of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has taken up the post at the helm of the ...

The far-right Freedom Party was blocked in Austria as on Tuesday Austria's president asked incumbent Chancellor Karl Nehammer ...

Herbert Kickl's far right party won the elections, but no other party would form a governing coalition with him.

The far-right Freedom Party's candidate Walter Rosenkranz was elected with 100 out of 162 valid votes cast, current ...

Austria’s president has tasked the incumbent chancellor with forming a new government after all other parties refused to work ...

The appointment comes after the Freedom Party won an unprecedented election victory in September.Austrian parliamentarians on ...

The Freedom Party secured the first far-right national parliamentary election victory in post-World War II Austria on Sunday, ...

Austria, which was annexed by Nazi Germany in the run-up to World War II, declared neutrality after the war under pressure ...

VIENNA, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Walter Rosenkranz from the Freedom Party was elected as Austria's parliament president on Thursday following the far-right party's win in September's general election.