Freedom Party of Austria
Austrian political party
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| February 2025 | The FPÖ re-established relations with the Israeli Likud party after Likud joined Patriots.eu. |
| February 2025 | After five weeks of negotiations with the ÖVP, Herbert Kickl failed to form a government coalition. |
| 2024 | In the European Parliament election, the Freedom Party of Austria emerged as the top party, led by an unnamed candidate, winning 872,304 votes (25.73%) and gaining 3 seats in the PfE (Patriots for Europe) group. |
| 2024 | The Freedom Party of Austria achieved its best electoral result in history, increasing support from 16% to 29.2% and placing first in the Austrian legislative election. |
| 2024 | Under Herbert Kickl's leadership, the party achieves its highest-ever vote share of 28.85%, becoming the largest party in the National Council. |
| June 30 2024 | The FPÖ joined with ANO 2011 and Fidesz to create the Patriots for Europe alliance. |
| 2023 | After Hamas attack on Israel, FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl expressed support for Israel's right to self-defense and opposed ceasefire |
| March 30 2023 | FPÖ lawmakers walked out of Austria's parliament during a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, protesting what they saw as a violation of Austria's neutrality |
| 2022 | Walter Rosenkranz ran as the party's presidential candidate, obtaining 717,097 votes (17.7%) and finishing in 2nd place. |
| June 19 2021 | Herbert Kickl's leadership was officially confirmed at a party convention vote. |
| June 7 2021 | Herbert Kickl was elected as the new leader of the Freedom Party of Austria by the central party committee. |
| June 1 2021 | Norbert Hofer resigned from his position as party leader. |
| 2020 | A study reveals the party's welfare policy focuses on protecting core workforce benefits while simultaneously promoting tax cuts and challenging trade union power. |
| April 2020 | The Freedom Party of Austria reached a record low of 10% support in polls after the 2019 general election. |
| 2019 | The party joined the Identity and Democracy (ID) group in the European Parliament. |
| September 2019 | Norbert Hofer replaced Heinz-Christian Strache as party leader of the Freedom Party of Austria, following the party's electoral support collapsing from 26% to 16%. |
| May 2019 | Secretly recorded video footage was released showing Heinz-Christian Strache, FPÖ leader, soliciting funds from a purported Russian national and suggesting media censorship to benefit the party, modeled after Hungary's media landscape. |
| May 20 2019 | The coalition government between the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) collapsed as a direct result of the Ibiza affair scandal. |
| 2017 | Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) achieved its best electoral result since 1999, obtaining 26% of votes and increasing its parliamentary seats to 51 in the Austrian legislative election. |
| December 2017 | FPÖ entered into a coalition government with the ÖVP (Austrian People's Party), securing control over six ministerial positions including defense, interior, and foreign affairs. |
| 2016 | In the Austrian presidential election, Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer won the first round with 35.1% of the vote, the party's best-ever election result, but was ultimately defeated by Alexander Van der Bellen in the second round. |
| December 4 2016 | A re-vote in the presidential election took place, with Van der Bellen winning by a significantly larger margin after the Constitutional Court voided the previous results due to mishandling of postal votes. |
| June 2015 | The main part of the federal party section of Salzburg split off and formed the Free Party Salzburg. |
| 2014 | Harald Vilimsky led the party's European Parliament election campaign, winning 556,835 votes (19.72%) and gaining 2 seats in the European Parliament's ENF (Europe of Nations and Freedom) group. |
| 2014 | The FPÖ joined the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom (MENF), forming a coalition with other right-wing European parties. |
| 2013 | In the legislative election, the FPÖ obtained 20.51% of votes, while the BZÖ scored 3.53% and lost all of its seats. |
| 2011 | After re-election as chairman, German aspects of the party's programme are formally reintroduced. |
| 2011 | Heinz-Christian Strache and Marine Le Pen announced deeper cooperation between their parties at a conference. |
| 2010 | In the Vienna elections, the FPÖ increased its vote to 25.8%, marking a significant victory for Strache and causing the SPÖ to lose its absolute majority in the city for only the second time in the postwar era. |
| 2010 | Barbara Rosenkranz ran as the party's presidential candidate, securing 481,923 votes (15.2%) and finishing in 2nd place. |
| December 2010 | FPÖ visited Israel and issued the 'Jerusalem Declaration', affirming Israel's right to exist and defend itself |
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