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Parties and Candidates

Austria Austria

PC001

Registration requirements for parties (Chamber 1)
Question:What are the registration requirements for political parties running for national elections (Chamber 1)?
Answer(s): a. Signature requirement (specify requirement)
Comments: The campaigning party must submit its election proposal to the provincial electoral authority with signatures from at least three members of the National Council or supported by qualified electors. The provincial constituencies vary on the number of signatures as follows: Burgenland and Vorarlberg: 100 Carinthia, Salzburg and Tyrol: 200 Upper Austria and Styria: 400 Lower Austria and Vienna: 500
Source: Federal Law on the Election of the National Council (1992), Art. 42
Verified: 2012/05/29
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PC003

Registration requirements for candidates (Chamber 1)
Question:What are the legal qualifications to become a candidate at legislative elections (Chamber 1)?
Answer(s): a. Age
b. Citizenship
Comments: Eligible to be elected are all men and women who on the day sat as a deadline are Austrian citizens, were at least 19 years old on the 1st January of the year of the elections and who have not been deprived of their right to vote.
Source: Constitution, Art. 26 Regulation on the Election of the Federal Council (1992), Art. 41
Verified: 2012/05/29
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PC008

Independent candidates
Question:Can independent candidates compete in presidential or legislative elections?
Answer(s): f. No information available
Comments:
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Verified: 2012/05/29
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PC012

Public funding of parties
Question:Do political parties receive direct/indirect public funding?
Answer(s): b. Direct
Comments: Each party represented in the National Council with at least five members minimum requirement for constituting a club) shall receive an annual basic amount determined by the Legislature.
Source: International IDEA (2003) "Funding of Political Parties and Election Campaigns" Federal Act on the Functions, Financing and Election Campaigning of Political Parties, Section 2.
Verified: 2012/05/29
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PC015


Question:What is the basis of the public funding?
Answer(s): b. Based on result of previous election
c. Based on current legislative representation
Comments: Each party represented in the National Council with at least five members minimum requirement for constituting a club) shall receive an annual basic amount determined by the Legislature.
Source: International IDEA (2003) "Funding of Political Parties and Election Campaigns" Federal Act on the Functions, Financing and Election Campaigning of Political Parties, Section 2.
Verified: 2012/05/29
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PC017


Question:Are political parties entitled to private funding?
Answer: b. No
Comments:
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Verified: 2012/05/29
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