2008 Austrian legislative election putting more emphasis on economic liberalism as well as social liberalism. BZÖ leader and Carinthian governor Jörg Haider died in a car accident in Köttmannsdorf near Klagenfurt in the state of Carinthia in the early hours of 11 October 2008. Police reported that the Volkswagen Phaeton that Haider had been driving came off the road, rolled down an embankment and overturned, causing him "severe head and chest injuries". Haider, who was on his way to a family gathering in honour of his mother's 90th birthday, was alone in the government car and no other vehicles were involved. An initial investigation
Far-right politics in Switzerland Sammlung were banned in 1943. After World War II, far-right politics re-emerged in the guise of radical right-wing populism against "Überfremdung" in the early 1970s, notably orchestrated by James Schwarzenbach. The first surge of right-wing populism subsided in the late 1970s, but it survived in the form of a few far-right fringe parties, the "Nationale Aktion" (1961–1990), a right wing group that attracted a few neo-fascists to its ranks and the "Republicans" (1971–1990), in 1990 merged into the "Schweizer Demokraten" and the Freedom Party (founded 1984 as "Autopartei" "automobile party" in a backlash against the emerging Green movement). A Liberal