NEOS (Austria)

NEOS
ChairwomanBeate Meinl-Reisinger
Deputy chairpersonClaudia Gamon Christoph Wiederkehr
Secretary GeneralDouglas Hoyos
Parliamentary leaderBeate Meinl-Reisinger
Managing directorClaudia Jäger
FounderMatthias Strolz
Founded
  • 27 October 2012 (2012-10-27) (NEOS)
  • 25 January 2014 (2014-01-25) (merger)
Merger ofNEOS, LiF, JuLis
HeadquartersVienna
Youth wingJUNOS – Young liberal NEOS
Ideology
Political positionCentre
European affiliationAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe[7]
European Parliament groupRenew Europe
Colours  Pink
SloganFreiheit, Fortschritt, Gerechtigkeit
('Freedom, Progress, Justice')
National Council
17 / 183
Federal Council
1 / 61
Governorships
0 / 9
State cabinets
1 / 9
State diets
20 / 440
European Parliament
2 / 19
Party flag
Website
partei.neos.eu

NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum (German: NEOS – Das Neue Österreich und Liberales Forum) is a liberal[1][2][8] political party in Austria. It was founded as NEOS – The New Austria in 2012. In 2014, NEOS merged with Liberal Forum and adopted its current name.

Since 2018, NEOS's chairwoman and parliamentary leader has been Beate Meinl-Reisinger. It won 8.3% in the 2019 legislative election. NEOS is a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and its two MEPs sit with the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament.

NEOS is represented in six of Austria's nine Landtage, and has been a coalition partner in the Vienna state and city government together with the SPÖ since 2020, and from 2018 to 2023 together with the ÖVP and the Greens in the state government in Salzburg.

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