Democratic Progressive Party (Austria)

The Democratic Progressive Party was a party that was founded in 1965 by Franz Olah after his expulsion from the party of the SPÖ. The party took more populist positions; Authors in the GDR evaluated, for example, that the party " closely based on reactionary and monarchist circles" have. The party achieved in the national election 1966 on 3 % of the votes, but not a mandate. It enabled so that the ÖVP to realize an absolute majority of seats, and the one-party government under Josef Klaus. In 1969, the DFP, who lived exclusively by Olah's reputation, win three seats in the Vienna City Council election. The significance of the party quickly went back, when Olah withdrew from politics, individual officials later joined the FPÖ to.

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