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Haider's comeback attempt

Vienna: Joerg Haider has launched a comeback attempt in Austrian politics, abandoning the party he turned into the most popular far-right movement in Europe to announce his leadership of a new party, the Alliance for the Future of Austria. Mr. Haider said he would remain Prime Minister of the southern province of Carinthia. At a press conference in Vienna, he was flanked by his sister, Ursula Haubner — who announced her immediate resignation from leadership of the Freedom Party while keeping her post as Social Affairs Minister in the Austrian Government. The new group has been purged of some of the most extreme rightwing elements of the Freedom Party and Mr. Haider made clear he was banking on pragmatism and not ideology for his fortunes to revive.

- Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005

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