Chancellors of Germany vs Austria from 2005-2021

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  1. Austria only had 2 chancellors who served a full term: Schüssel and Faymann.

    4 of them were interim chancellors (Mitterlehner, Löger, Bierlein and Schallenberg) to rescue a government in collapse although Bierlein formed her own government until snap elections took place.

    The last 3 (Kurz, Schallenberg, Nehammer) have all been in office in the past 3 months.

  2. Are there differences in the Austrian and German political system that causes fewer leaders to be favored in Germany? Even aside from Merkel, Germany tends to have leaders with what I’d call relatively-lengthy tenures.

  3. I liked Merkel – she had deep understanding of post-communist states, even though she was of course tough German politician. Shroeder was an asshole and Kohl was reckless in foreign policy, he was talking only from position of power and blackmailed polish fresh democratic govt quite a number of times.

  4. Now Chancellors come Chancellors go out my revolving door

    Some Chancellors never come back some come back for more

    I’ve got a country in the hills with a door that spins

    Goes in and out out and in round and round again

    What exactly is happening in Austria?

  5. If you think about that: my german friend, born in 1983 and so he’s 38, has lived through just 3 chancelors in his whole not so short Livetime…

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