MFG Austria – People Freedom Fundamental Rights (, MFG) is a
minor
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political party in Austria
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. The party is often described by media outlets as the "
anti-vaccination
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" or "vaccine-critical" and its voters have been described as following or spreading conspiracy theories. The party claims to have 4,000 members.
History
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. It is strongly represented in
Upper Austria
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, especially in the
Ried im Innkreis District
Bezirk Ried is a district of the state of Upper Austria in Austria.
Municipalities
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, where after it was founded, local groups formed in eight communities:
Aurolzmünster,
Eberschwang
Eberschwang is a municipality in the district of Ried im Innkreis in the Austrian state of Upper Austria
Upper Austria ( ; ; ) is one of the nine States of Austria, states of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders Germany and the Cz ...
,
Geinberg
Geinberg is a municipality in the district of Ried im Innkreis in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.
Geography
Geinberg lies in the Innviertel
The Innviertel (literally German language, German for "Inn Quarter"; officially called the ; ) is ...
,
Gurten,
Ried im Innkreis
Ried im Innkreis (Central Bavarian: ''Riad'') is a town in the Austrian state of Upper Austria, approximately west of Linz and north of Salzburg. It is the capital of the district of Ried im Innkreis (district), Ried im Innkreis, and it serves a ...
,
Sankt Martin im Innkreis
St. Martin im Innkreis is a municipality in Ried District, in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.
Geography
St. Martin lies in the Innviertel (''Innkreis'') region, situated on the west slope of the Troßkolm forest in the Antiesen valley. It ...
,
Utzenaich
Utzenaich is a municipality in the district of Ried im Innkreis in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.
Geography
Utzenaich lies in the Innviertel
The Innviertel (literally German language, German for "Inn Quarter"; officially called the ; ) i ...
and
Waldzell
Waldzell is a municipality in the district of Ried im Innkreis in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.
Geography
Waldzell lies in the Innviertel
The Innviertel (literally German language, German for "Inn Quarter"; officially called the ; ) is ...
. With Joachim Aigner, the top candidate for the
2021 Upper Austrian state election also comes from the
Ried District. The party got its best results in communities with many unvaccinated people.
The party scored a major election result in the January 2022 municipal election in
Waidhofen an der Ybbs
Waidhofen an der Ybbs (, ) is a statutory city ''(Statutarstadt)'' in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. The city had a population of 11,662 as of the 2001 census and an area of 131.56 km². It was first mentioned in 1186 and has been the e ...
in
Lower Austria
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, winning more than 17% of the vote. In the municipal elections in
Tyrol
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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
Presidential elections were held in Austria on 9 October 2022. Incumbent Alexander Van der Bellen from the The Greens – The Green Alternative, Greens was eligible for one more term and ran for re-election. About 6.36 million voting-age citizens ...
with party leader Michael Brunner.
In the
2024 European parliament election in Austria, the party did not run a candidate list. In the
2024 Austrian legislative election
General election, Legislative elections were held in Austria on 29 September 2024 to elect the 28th National Council (Austria), National Council, the lower house of Austria's bicameral parliament.
The election saw the far-right Freedom Party o ...
, the party received 0.4% of the vote and did worse than fellow anti-vaccination party
Madeleine Petrovic List
The Madeleine Petrovic List (; LMP) is a Green politics, green and COVID-19 misinformation, COVID-19 sceptical List of political parties in Austria, political party in Austria founded by former The Greens – The Green Alternative, Green spokeswom ...
.
Leadership
*
Party chairman
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Th ...
: Michael Brunner
* Deputy Party Chairman: Christian Fiala
*
Secretary General
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/
Spokesperson
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Duties and function
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: Gerold Beneder
* Financial advisor: Gerhard Pöttler
* Secretary: Dagmar Häusler
* Deputy Secretary: Gabriele Safran
Election results
National Council
President
State Parliaments
See also
*
Democratic – Neutral – Authentic
Democratic – Neutral – Authentic (, DNA) is an Austrian right-wing populist political party founded by anti-vaccination activist Maria Hubmer-Mogg. The party was able to collect the necessary petition signatures for ballot access and compete ...
*
Grassroots Democratic Party of Germany
The Grassroots Democratic Party of Germany (, abbreviated ) is a political party in Germany. The declared aim of the party is to strengthen grassroots democracy in society and politics, as they consider that many areas of life are dominated by e ...
*
Vision Austria
Vision Austria (, VÖ) is an Austrian minor party that made its electoral debut in the 2023 Carinthian state election.
History
Vision Österreich was founded in July 2022 by the Carinthian lawyer Alexander Todor-Kostic. He had previously been t ...
References
External links
Official homepage of the MFG
{{DEFAULTSORT:MFG Austria - People Freedom Fundamental Rights
Political parties in Austria
Anti-vaccination organizations
COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and hesitancy
Political parties established in 2021
Organizations established for the COVID-19 pandemic
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on politics