Everything you Need to Know About the Austrian Federal Presidential Election

More+Events ♦ Published: October 6, 2022; 12:15 ♦ (Vindobona)

This Sunday, Austria will hold its federal presidential elections. The current incumbent, Alexander Van der Bellen, has to face his rivals after his six-year term. Read on to find out who the six opposing candidates are!

On Sunday, it will be decided who will be Austria's Federal President for the next 6 years. / Picture: © Dennis Jarvis/ Flickr Attribution (CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

On 22 May 2022, Alexander Van der Bellen announced that he would stand again as a candidate for the federal presidential election in October.

Van der Bellen's first term in office was characterised above all by many political and global crises in which Van der Bellen had to distinguish himself as a crisis manager,