Editing Austrian People's Party (section)

== Ideology and platform ==
{{Conservatism in Austria|Parties}}

The ÖVP is described as [[Christian democracy|Christian-democratic]],<ref name="Peverini2023">{{cite book|author=Marco Peverini|title=Promoting Rental Housing Affordability in European Cities: Learning from the Cases of Milan and Vienna|publisher=Springer Nature Switzerland|year=2023|isbn=9783031436925|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Aw3kEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA58|page=58}}</ref><ref name="MarksWilson">{{cite book|first1=Gary|last1=Marks|first2=Carole|last2=Wilson|chapter=National Parties and the Contestation of Europe|editor1=T. Banchoff|editor-first2=Mitchell P.|editor-last2=Smith|title=Legitimacy and the European Union|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GgvLEFPY8l4C&pg=PA126|access-date=26 August 2012|year=1999|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-18188-4|page=126}}</ref><ref name="Krouwel2012">{{cite book|first=André|last=Krouwel|title=Party Transformations in European Democracies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w4DMRL66gOIC&pg=PA291|access-date=14 February 2013|year=2012|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-4483-3|page=291}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bale |first=Tim |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1256593260 |title=Riding the populist wave: Europe's mainstream right in crisis |date=2021 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |others=Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser |isbn=978-1-009-00686-6 |location=Cambridge, United Kingdom |pages=34 |oclc=1256593260}}</ref> [[conservatism|conservative]],<ref name="GrandeDolezal">{{cite book|first1=Edgar|last1=Grande|first2=Martin|last2=Dolezal|first3=Marc|last3=Helbling|first4=Dominic|last4=Höglinger|title=Political Conflict in Western Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6_zivrfDd3AC&pg=PA52|access-date=19 July 2013|year=2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-02438-0|page=52}}</ref><ref name="Givens2005">{{cite book|first=Terri E.|last=Givens|title=Voting Radical Right in Western Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SDY2CGcPJwkC&pg=PA23|access-date=19 July 2013|year=2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-44670-9|page=23}}</ref> and [[liberal conservatism|liberal-conservative]].<ref name="Peverini2023"/><ref name="Güntzel2010">{{cite book|author=Ralph P Güntzel|title=Understanding "Old Europe": An Introduction to the Culture, Politics, and History of France, Germany, and Austria|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8gJ4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA162|year= 2010|publisher=Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag|isbn=978-3-8288-5300-3|page=162}}</ref><ref name="HM2018">{{cite book|author= Janne Haaland Matlary|title=Hard Power in Hard Times: Can Europe Act Strategically?|publisher=Palgrave Macmillian|year=2018|isbn= 9783319765143|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eflcDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA108|page=108}}</ref> The party has also been described as a [[big tent|catch-all party]] of the [[centre-right politics|centre-right]], in the vein of the [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany]].<ref name="KesselmanKrieger2008">{{cite book|author1=Mark Kesselman|author2=Joel Krieger|author3=Christopher S. Allen|author4=Stephen Hellman|title=European Politics in Transition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FGK0Ht0OM_IC&pg=PA229|accessdate=17 August 2012|year=2008|publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn=978-0-618-87078-3|page=229}}</ref><ref name="Wiliarty2010">{{cite book|author=Sarah Elise Wiliarty|title=The CDU and the Politics of Gender in Germany: Bringing Women to the Party|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4xYAlBYDvrkC&pg=PA221|accessdate=17 August 2012|year=2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-76582-4|page=221}}</ref> For most of its existence, the ÖVP has explicitly defined itself as [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] and [[anti-socialist]], with the ideals of [[Subsidiarity (Catholicism)|subsidiarity]] as defined by the [[encyclical]] ''[[Quadragesimo anno]]'' and [[decentralisation]].

For the first election after World War II, the ÖVP presented itself as the Austrian Party ({{langx|de|die österreichische Partei}}), was [[Criticism of Marxism|anti-Marxist]] and regarded itself as the Party of the centre ({{langx|de|link=no|Partei der Mitte}}). The ÖVP consistently held power—either alone or in so-called [[Grand coalition|black–red coalition]] with the [[Social Democratic Party of Austria]] (SPÖ)—until 1970, when the SPÖ formed a minority government with the [[Freedom Party of Austria]] (FPÖ). The ÖVP's economic policies during the era generally upheld a [[social market economy]].

The party's campaign for the [[2017 Austrian legislative election|2017 legislative election]] under the party chairman [[Sebastian Kurz]] was dominated by a rightward shift in policy which included a promised crackdown on [[illegal immigration]] and a fight against [[political Islam]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/make-austria-great-again-the-rapid-rise-of-sebastian-kurz/a-40313720|title=Make Austria Great Again — the rapid rise of Sebastian Kurz|work=[[Deutsche Welle]]|access-date=17 October 2018}}</ref> making it more similar to the program of the FPÖ, the party that Kurz chose as his coalition partner after the ÖVP won the election. The party underwent a change in its image after Kurz became chairman, changing its colour from the traditional [[black]] to [[turquoise (color)|turquoise]], and adopting the name '''The new People's Party''' ({{langx|de|Die neue Volkspartei}}).<ref name="Our History"/>