Vienna Greens, also known as the Green Alternative Party President and leader in the Austrian Capital Maria Vassilakou, in the critical local and municipal elections in Vienna on October 10th, announced the beginning of the pre-election campaign in a major event held at the famous Viennese Museum Quarter.
Ms. Vassilakou, identified her aim is for changes in social and environmental policy, investment in schools, kindergartens and healthcare, the transformation of Vienna into a metropolis for climate protection. Additionally she requested the automatic provision of Austrian citizenship to children from their birth.
Maria Vassilakou was elected in June 2004 as the new leader of the Vienna Greens and leader of the Parliamentar Group in the local parliament. Since 2008 she has been the Vice President of the Austria Greens; the party with which she has been elected with since 1996 in the local Parliament in Vienna since 1996.
Her party after the federal parliamentary elections in September 2008, is the fifth political force in Austria, holding 20 out of 183 seats in the Austrian Parliament. In the local and municipal elections of October 2005 in Vienna, the party obtained 14 seats out of the 100 total seats in the local parliament and a percentage of 14.63%.
The Greek politician was born on February 23rd in 1969 in Athens and has been living in Vienna since 1986. She studied Psychology and Linguistics in Vienna, actively participating from the first years of her studies in the Austrian student movement.
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