National People's Party of Austria (Cinco De Mayo)

The National People's Party (German: Nationale Volkspartei, or NVP) is a far-right political Austrian political party that was formed in 1969 upon the union of the Landbund and Worker's Party and which briefly sat in government with the Christian Social Party following the collapse of the CS-LVP coalition government in late 1970. The six months they spent as part of the coalition would be the last time they sat in government for 26 years, serving as a third-party fringe organization until it was invited into Erhard Busek's second government, with Jörg Haider serving as Vice Chancellor. The NVP suffered heavy losses initially in the 2000 election and spent most of the 2000s in the "wilderness," nearly failing to cross the 5% threshold needed to enter Parliament in 2003. After Haider's death in a 2008 car accident, the party has moved towards the center on many economic issues while moving further right on immigration and "cultural" issues. The current party leader is Josef Bucher. The NVP has 20 seats in the 250-seat National Assembly.