Alexander Zach is an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n politician and former member of the Austrian Parliament (2006 – 2008). He has been the head of the Liberal Forum

Liberal Forum

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 from 2001 to 2008. Although his party did not run the elections of 2006

Austrian legislative election, 2006

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, Zach was given a seat on the SPÖ

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 as a result of an alliance whose aim was forestalling another term of Wolfgang Schüssel

Wolfgang Schüssel

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 as chancellor

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. Only five days before the Austrian legislative elections in September 2008

Austrian legislative election, 2008

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 Zach resigned his position as head of his party after being accused of lobbying for EADS

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