!!!Opposition

Opposition, the groups opposing the government in or out of parliament 
and having no governmental functions. While the opposition was almost 
as strong as the government during the period of the First Republic 
(in 1933 there was a difference of only one parliamentary seat), 
during the Second Republic - with the exception of the minority 
government under Bruno Kreisky in 1970/1971 - the opposition parties 
have been markedly weaker than the governing parties. Opposition 
parties were: KPOe (Austrian Communist Party) 1947-1959, SPOe 
(Austrian Social Democratic Party) 1966-1970, OeVP (Austrian 
People´s Party) 1970-1987, WdU (forerunner of FPOe or Austrian 
Freedom Party) 1949-1983 and again from 1987, the Austrian Green Party 
since 1986. Right-wing groups and - since 1959 - the KPOe have 
constituted extra-parliamentary opposition movements; the Green 
movement also began as an opposition outside of parliament.


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