The Austrian People’s Party endeavoured to regain an above-half majority of mandates in the National Council in the 1970 parliamentary elections. However, it failed to achieve this goal, even though the balance of the unicolor ÖVP government was not bad at all. The People’s Party failed to adequately respond to the transformations of Austrian society, it presented a faulty pre-election campaign based on out-dated methods. Some members of the public also disagreed with some of its measures, particularly in the economic sphere. And finally, it faced well-prepared competition in the form of the SPÖ lead by the charismatic Bruno Kreisky. The results of the elections in spring 1970 began the greatest crisis in the history of the ÖVP, which the party took several years to recover from.
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This study analyses changes in the journalists’ union triggered by a change in the head of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in January 1968. The journalist organisation management responded to the power shake-up at the highest levels of Czechoslovak politics with restraint. They ended their tactical passivity at the turn of February and March 1968 when influenced by a renewing society-wide process, they formulated proposals for reforming the organisation’s internal structure and rehabilitating journalists in society.
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