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=== The Schüssel I government ===
In the [[Austria legislative election, 1999|1999 election]], Schüssel's ÖVP finished third, trailing Jörg Haider's Freedom Party (FPÖ) by 415 votes. After a series of talks to renew the grand coalition with the SPÖ failed after several months, Schüssel reached an agreement with the Freedom Party.
In the normal course of events, FPÖ leader [[Jörg Haider]] should have become chancellor, with Schüssel remaining as vice-chancellor. However, when it became apparent that Haider was too controversial to serve in the government, let alone lead it, Schüssel was sworn in as chancellor on 4 February 2000. His government was the first in 30 years that was not headed by the SPÖ.
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(originally 24 were ordered, this number was reduced after the 2002 floods) was seen as waste of money by the opposition, most of all because of the attempts to save money in almost every area of the public administration. The government's arguments for this was that the [[Austrian State Treaty]], according to which Austria needs to be able to defend herself, is to be read to imply that Austria must be in complete control of her air space. The opposition argued that this goal could have been reached in a much cheaper way.
Starting from around 2030, the unfavorable structure of the [[population pyramid]] had been forecast create a ratio of active to retired workers of 1:1. Schüssel's pension reform made provision for this in the reduction of future pensions and raising of the [[retirement|retirement age]]. Schüssel's reform of the Austrian pension system is more broad-sweeping and thus more likely to be effective than all previous reforms in this area combined. Demographics experts insisted that it ideally should have gone further,{{
==Life after politics==
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[[Category:Chancellors of Austria]]
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[[Category:Grand Crosses 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]]
[[Category:Grand Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland]]
[[Category:Grand Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (civil)]]
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