Alexander van der Bellen

The 11th President of Austria .

He was born in Vienna on January 18, 1944 . His ancestors moved from the Netherlands to the Russian Empire, and his father and mother immigrated to the then newly independent First Republic of Estonia during the Russian Civil War .

He majored in economics and earned a doctorate degree and worked as a university professor. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party until 1992 , but his interest in the environmental movement led him to join the Green-Green Alternative . From 1994 to 2012 he was a member of the Austrian National Assembly , and from 1997 to 2008 he was the party leader of the Green-Green Alternative . He has had several political careers, running for the 2016 presidential election in Austria. In the first round, he came second to Norbert Hofer of the Liberal Party , but in the final round he expected to be elected president with 50.3% support, but...

Hopper was slightly ahead of the on -site voting, but as the absentee voting was voted, the result was upside down, and 49.7%of the candidates for Hopper and 50.3 percent of the independent panda Belen from the Green Party were the presidential candidate. As the votes were very small, the Liberal Party, which was dissatisfied with the presidential election results, filed a lawsuit for the early release of the postal voting (absentee vote), and the Constitutional Court ordered the election invalid. A voting bag was found in the re -election, which was scheduled to be held on October 2, and the election was delayed and held on December 4th. Heinz Fisher, who had previously president, retired, and had no president until he took office. The re -election did not change the results to 53.8%and Hopper 46.2%, and only the votes were opened.

2019 On June 3, when the coalition between the People's Party and the Liberal Party was broken due to the corruption controversy of Deputy Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, he requested the President of the Constitutional Court , Brigitte Bierlein, to form a transitional cabinet to launch the first technocratic cabinet in Austrian history. contributed

2021 South Korea on June 14 He held a summit meeting with President Moon Jae-in and held a joint signing ceremony. At this meeting, Van der Bellen praised Korea as the champion of COVID-19 prevention and stressed, "It is very important to link Austria's technology with Korea's industrialization technology to fight Corona."

2022 In the re-election election held on October 9, he won 56.69% of the votes in the first round, confirming his election without a runoff.