2010 Austrian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Austria on 25 April 2010, the twelfth election of an Austrian head of state since 1951. The candidates were President Heinz Fischer, Barbara Rosenkranz (FPÖ) and Rudolf Gehring (CPÖ). Heinz Fischer won with just under 80% of the valid votes. Voter turnout was a historic low of 54%.
Image: Heinz Fischer 2012 (cropped)
Image: Barbara Rosenkranz
Image: Rudolf Gehring CPÖ cropped
Heinz "The Red Heinzi" or "HeiFi" Fischer GColIH, OMRI, RSerafO, GCollSE is a former Austrian politician who served as President of Austria from 2004 to 2016. Fischer previously served as minister of science from 1983 to 1987 and as president of the National Council of Austria from 1990 to 2002. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) until 2004, he suspended his party membership as he became president.
Fischer in 2018
Re-election party in 2010
Fischer with Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama in Tokyo on 30 September 2009
With ministers Ostermayer and Klug at the opening of the Memorial for the Victims of Nazi Military Justice on the Ballhausplatz