Unofficial (he officially strepped down because he caused too much bad rep for Austria) leader of the FPÖ. Widely infamous as a Neo-Nazi, but a closer inspection reveals that he is first and foremost the penultimate opportunist and populist: he mainly capitalizes on people's xenophobia, but in general, he simply says whatever he thinks his current audience wants to hear, no matter how blatant a lie it is. The main reason for his ballot triumphs, however, is that the other two big parties of Austria, the SPÖ and the ÖVP, had been in power for a very long time and had become very corrupt. The result was that people began to believe that anything would be better than that - and Haider of course didn't hesitate to promise that he would end all corruption.