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Chancellor of Austria
Head of government of the Republic of Austria / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The chancellor of Austria, officially the federal chancellor the Republic of Austria (German: Bundeskanzler der Republik Österreich), is the head of government of the Republic of Austria. The position is functionally equivalent to Prime Minister in a parliamentary system of government.
Chancellor of Republic of Austria | |
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Bundeskanzler der Republik Österreich (German) | |
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Chancellery | |
Style | Mr Chancellor His Excellency (diplomatic) |
Type | Head of government |
Status | Supreme executive organ Minister |
Member of | Cabinet European Council National Security Council |
Seat | Chancellery Building Ballhausplatz, Innere Stadt, Vienna |
Appointer | President |
Term length | No fixed term |
Constituting instrument | Constitution of Austria |
Precursor | Minister-President of Cisleithania |
Formation | 30 October 1918 (105 years ago) (1918-10-30) |
First holder | Karl Renner |
Deputy | Vice Chancellor |
Salary | €306,446 annually |
Website | federal-chancellery |
Current officeholder is Karl Nehammer of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), who was sworn in on 6 December 2021 following the resignations of Sebastian Kurz and Alexander Schallenberg, of the same party, as party leader and Chancellor. All three leaders formed a government with the Green Party, the first coalition between these two parties at the federal level. Brigitte Bierlein was the Second Republic's first Kanzlerin, forming a nonpartisan caretaker government between a vote of no confidence in Kurz's first government in June 2019 and the formation of his second in January 2020.[1]