Enough signatures

Beer party makes it onto the ballot nationwide

Dominik Wlazny: "Austria is full."

(Bild: Die Bierpartei/Siegfried Wolf)

"Now it's really getting going!" says Dominik Wlazny, who now has enough declarations of support for his beer party to run nationwide in the National Council elections.

"Austria is full. We will be on the ballot paper nationwide in the National Council elections on September 29 alongside the parties already represented in parliament," explained the musician on Friday. The party will appear on the ballot paper under the name BIER.

Dominik Wlazny with the declarations of support in his hands

(Bild: Die Bierpartei/Siegfried Wolf)

The party, which was launched in 2015 as a satirical project by punk rock singer Wlazny, who became known as Marco Pogo, has a good chance of entering the National Council according to surveys. The party ran in the 2019 National Council elections - but only in Vienna, where it received just under 5,000 votes. Since 2020, the beer party has been represented in district councils in Vienna with eleven seats, but missed out on a place in the Vienna state parliament.

Biggest electoral success to date in presidential election
The party founder's greatest success to date was in the presidential election, when Wlazny achieved 8.3% of the vote nationwide and even came second in Vienna.

Together with the Beer Party, the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ), which has also already collected the necessary signatures, and the parliamentary parties, at least seven parties will be on the ballot in the election on September 29.