Crown Of Roses, Crown Of Thorns
Walter Rosenkranz, member of the greater German nationalist fraternity Libertas, has been elected president of the Austrian parliament
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Last week, Austria’s parliament sat for the first time since the election on September 29, won by the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ). The body had two main orders of business: the swearing-in all of 183 MPs and the election of a new presidium made up of three MPs that, together, serves a similar function to the Speaker of the House and their deputies. Parliamentary custom dictates that the president of the Austrian parliament should come from the largest party in parliament, and thus for the first time since 1945, a member of the FPÖ, Walter Rosenkranz, was elected president, albeit with the backing of only 100 MPs1.
Rosenkranz, born 1962, was first elected an MP in 2008 and served as head of the FPÖ parliamentary party from 2017 to 2019. He was the FPÖ’s candidate for president in 2022, coming second with 17.7 percent of the vote; his most recent role in politics was as a pub…
