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AbstractThis entry includes data on changes in national government composition, party leadership changes and parliamentary composition in Austria in 2021, as well as election results from a subnational election. It covers the Austrian coalition government between the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the Greens, led by Sebastian Kurz, in the second year of handling the Covid‐19 pandemic. Judicial and parliamentary investigations of politicians and Cabinet officials from the Austrian People's Party, including Federal Chancellor and ÖVP party leader Kurz, resulted in the latter's retreat from politics. Over the course of the year, the federal government was led by three different Federal Chancellors from the ÖVP.

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