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     Conform  mediafax.ro ,Preşedintele Austriei, Alexander Van der Bellen, a desemnat-o, joi după-amiază, pe fosta judecătoare Brigitte Bierlein în funcţia de cancelar, în contextul crizei politice de la Viena care a condus la demisia Guvernul Sebastian Kurz.

 

Imaginea articolului Austria are un nou cancelar, după demisia Guvernului Sebastian Kurz

Brigitte Bierlein a fost desemnată cancelar al Austriei

"O cunosc şi o apreciez pe doamna Bierlein, o persoană prudentă, deschisă şi foarte competentă. Îi încredinţez doamnei Bierlein sarcina de a forma guvernul federal", a declarat Van der Bellen, citat de agenţia de presă APA.

În vârstă de 69 de ani, Brigitte Bierlein este de profesie judecător, iar în ultimul an a fost preşedintele Curţii Constituţionale din Austria.

Cancelarul Brigitte Bierlein ar urma să formeze un guvern de tranziţie, până la organizarea scrutinului parlamentar.

Hartwig Löger a preluat interimatul funcţiei de cancelar în Austria după demiterea Guvernului Sebastian Kurz prin moţiune de cenzură, în contextul crizei politice generate de un scandal de corupţie. Parlamentul Austriei a aprobat luni după-amiază moţiunea depusă de Partidul Social-Democrat (SPÖ, centru-stânga) împotriva Guvernului condus de cancelarul Sebastian Kurz, liderul formaţiunii de centru-dreapta Partidul Popular Austriac (ÖVP). Moţiunea social-democrată a fost susţinută şi de Partidul Libertăţii (FPÖ, extremă-dreapta), precum şi de mişcarea JETZT (ACUM, de stânga).

Guvernul Austriei era susţinut de o coaliţie formată de Partidul Popular Austriac cu Partidul Libertăţii. Alianţa politică s-a destrămat după ce cancelarul Sebastian Kurz a cerut demiterea din Guvern a unor lideri ai Partidului Libertăţii în contextul scandalului de corupţie în care este implicat vicecancelarul demisionar Hainz-Christian Strache.

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**Brigitte Bierlein (born June 25, 1949 in Vienna) is an Austrian jurist. She was the advocate general of the Procurator's Office, essentially the country's chief public prosecutor, from 1990 to 2002, and a member of the executive board of the International Association of Prosecutors from 2001 to 2003. In 2003, Bierlein was made a member of the Austrian Constitutional Court. Since January 2018, she has been serving as its president, the first woman to hold this position. She will be appointed as temporary Chancellor until the next national elections in September 2019 and will be the first woman in this role in Austria.

Early life

Brigitte Bierlein was born on June 25, 1949 in Vienna.[1]

She was educated at the Gymnasium Kundmanngasse, from which she graduated in 1967.[1]

Her father was a civil servant. Her mother, in spite of having been trained as an artist, was a homemaker.[2]

Career

Bierlein originally wanted to study either art or architecture and came close to joining the University of Applied Arts.[3] She ultimately chose to study law instead, partly on the advice of her mother and partly because she did not want to be a financial burden on her parents any longer than necessary.[2][4][5] Bierlein enrolled at the University of Vienna, receiving her doctorate of law in 1971.[1]

After four years as a candidate judge, Bierlein was officially elevated to the judiciary in 1975. She spent the next two years presiding over trial courts, first the District Court Innere Stadt (German: Bezirksgericht Innere Stadt Wien) and then the District Tribunal Vienna (Stafbezirksgericht Wien), a criminal court that has since been dissolved.[1] In the former position, she mostly dealt with cases at tenancy law, an area that appears to have bored her greatly.[4]

In 1977, Bierlein left the bench to join the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office (Staatswanwaltschaft Wien). She was responsible for general and political criminal cases as well as for criminal cases pursuant to media law, a type of proceedings customarily handled by dedicated specialists in Austria. In 1986, Bierlein was promoted to the Vienna Chief Public Prosecutor's Office (Oberstaatsanwaltschaft Wien). She was now a distinguished civil servant attached to one of the country's five most senior criminal chambers. In 1987, she spent a few months working in the Department of Criminal Law in the Ministry of Justice, then returned to her position in the prosecution service.[1]

In 1990, she was appointed advocate general of the Procurator's Office, the section of the prosecution service attached directly to the Supreme Court.[1] She was the first woman to serve in this position.[3]

The same year, Bierlein became a member of the board of examiners for judges and prosecutors at the Vienna Higher Regional Court, a position she would hold until 2010.[1]

In 1995, Bierlein was appointed to the executive board of the Association of Austrian Prosecutors. From 2001 to 2003, she served as the association's president. Also from 2001 to 2003, she held a seat on the executive board of the International Association of Prosecutors.[1]

In 2002, the first Schüssel government recommended Bierlein for appointment as vice president of the Constitutional Court. The move was not uncontroversial at the time. Bierlein had prosecuted crime with great fervor but had not distinguished herself as a legal scholar; she is in fact considered indifferent as a theorist to this day.[3][5] Opposition politicians such as Josef Cap accused the government of passing over multiple more competent candidates in favor of a partisan hack. Bierlein supporters such as Maria Fekter countered that Bierlein's appointment would be an important step towards gender equality in Austria.[6][7]

Assenting to the cabinet's recommendation, President Thomas Klestil appointed Bierlein on November 21, 2002, the appointment to be effective January 1, 2003. Once again, Bierlein was the first woman to serve in the role she was being elevated to.[6][7][8] In fact, there had been no women at all on the Constitutional Court until 1995.[2][9]

Bierlein took over from the president of the court, Gerhart Holzinger, when he retired from the bench effective December 31, 2017.[10]

On the initiative of the Freedom Party, the right-of-center Kurz government moved to turn her interim position into a permanent one.[11][12] President Alexander Van der Bellen confirmed Bierlein as the new president of the Constitutional Court on February 23, 2018.[13] Bierlein's previous role as vice president passed on to Supreme Court justice Christoph Grabenwarter. Wolfgang Brandstetter, who had formerly been vice chancellor and minister of justice on a People's Party ticket, was appointed to fill the vacancy of the Court.[11][12]

Bierlein will reach the mandatory retirement age of 70 in 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

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