Alexander Zach

Zach Alexander ( born September 10, 1976 in Vienna) is an Austrian politician and a former member of the Austrian National Council and initiator of the Liberal Institute Austria. By 2008, he was executive speaker of the Liberal Forum.

Political career

Zach Alexander was chief editor of the school newspaper and school spokesman in Vienna Bundesgymnasium 18 Monastery alley of 1992 until 1995. As a fellow of the non-partisan list Sapperlot won this immediately the provincial education spokesman. He was a member of the Vienna High School State Student Council 1994-1995.

The two successful rounds of voting by the then Liberal Students Forum with around 10 percent in the years 1997 and 1999, Zach led as LSF national manager, he was also deputy in the Federal Representation of the Austrian Student Union (formerly Central Committee ). From 1998 to 2001, Zach began as a liberal county council in Vienna Waehring for a "parliament in miniature" one.

Zach was from 2002 Deputy Chairman of the Liberal International (LI ) and representatives of the LIF at the Council of the European Liberal Party ( ELDR).

On September 23, 2008 Zach Alexander resigned as executive speaker, Member of Parliament and as a candidate for the parliamentary election and thus drew the consequences from the accusations made against him, to have lobbied with its PR agency for the Euro Fighter manufacturer EADS. The party was chaired by interim Heide Schmidt and the National Council mandate Kurt Nekula ( SPÖ).

Policy objectives

Civil rights, data

Zach committed against eavesdropping and dragnet in the nonpartisan platform for fundamental rights; supported by the open, LIF, Students' Union, data and other JV. In Parliament he made in June 2007 with a request to mobilize against the " without suspicion retention", with an EU directive should be implemented quickly and in overachievement.

For Zach Alexander heard on Sundays must be kept open to the freedom of consumers and business owners. The staff should work on Sunday only voluntary.

Basic Income

Zach advocates an unconditional basic income of 750 euros a month for all. This should provide the basis for the participation of all the social and cultural life of the open society; especially for lifelong learning. He advertises for, among others, the Chief of the dm- chain Götz Werner and also at European level.

Parliament

For the 2006 national elections took Zach and the LIF to the offer of an electoral alliance of Alfred Gusenbauer. Zach Alexander ran for the Liberal Forum in coalition with the SPÖ in 15th place of the Socialist Federal list. After the election, he went about this in the National Council. Zach was a member of the Social Democratic Party clubs, but stressed its free mandate. He was subject to no party discipline and represented the policy of the Liberal Forum, the first time had a voice in Parliament since 1999.

Zach was a member of three committees of the National Council: the Transportation Committee, the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on Research, Innovation and Technology. In Justice as the Economic Committee Zach was a deputy member.

Life and work

Zach grew up in Vienna and completed his schooling there in 1995, after his training to academically qualified PR consultant in 1999; the high school course for public relations of four semesters is based on two semesters and two semesters Powi Jus - Pub.

Zach is married since 2007 and lives in Vienna.

2002 to early 2006, he was managing partner of a startup, the PR agency Euro Contact ( Vienna and Budapest) with four employees.

Donations accusation

During the campaign for the parliamentary elections of 2006, the EU parliament Hans -Peter Martin reported on political donations Zach to Hungary. Zach got from party colleague Hans Peter Haselsteiner ( head of construction company Strabag ) 15 million euros consultant's fee for his former company Euro Contact and donated some of the money on a club to Hungarian parties.

It turned out that the club is "Liberal Institute " had actually supports projects of political academies in Hungary with approximately 93,000 euros, the chairman of the Hungarian SZDSZ confirmed. Also hazel Steiner Group confirmed the flow of money: "It was the express wish Haselsteiner that Euro Contact a portion of the fee " will donate to support the political democracy in Hungary to party-affiliated clubs and academies. "

Martin also said Zach was a " weapons lobbyist " because he had operated with Euro Contact in Hungary for EADS. To this accusation Zach said a spokesman tersely: " About activities of the company Euro: contact Zach could give no information ." These allegations also emerged during the campaign for the parliamentary elections in 2008 again, and again commented on Zach and Haselsteiner the allegations mostly repellent. In the standard, however, Zach admitted that Euro Contact was indirectly through the German Agency for salaction EADS, including for " media monitoring on the topic interceptor ", works. The standard designated services rendered as " lobbying work ."