Petra Steger

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Petra Steger
Official portrait, 2024
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office
16 July 2024
ConstituencyAustria
Member of the National Council
In office
29 October 2013 – 15 July 2024
Succeeded byMarkus Leinfellner
ConstituencyVienna
Personal details
Born (1987-10-04) 4 October 1987 (age 37)
Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria
Political party Austrian
Freedom Party of Austria
EU
Patriots.eu

Petra Steger (born 4 October 1987) is an Austrian politician and member of the European Parliament for the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). She was a member of the National Council from 2023 to 2024. She is also a former professional basketball player.[1]

Early life

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Steger was educated at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, where she studied business law and international business administration. While her father, then Vice-Chancellor Norbert Steger discouraged her from entering politics, Steger would join the FPÖ in 2008.[1][2]

Early political career

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Between 2012 and 2016, Steger was a presenter and editor at FPÖ TV, a party-owned TV channel that publishes videos on YouTube and other platforms.[3]

Member of the National Council

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Steger in 2016

Steger was elected in the 2013 Austrian legislative election to the National Council. She would be re-elected in 2017 and 2019.[4]

In 2017, Steger supported a headscarf ban in the public service and said that she would also like to see a headscarf ban in schools and universities.[5]

Member of the European Parliament

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Steger was elected in the 2024 European Parliament election as the second candidate on the FPÖ list, as the FPÖ swept to its first nationwide victory in history and won 6 seats.[6][7] In the National Council, she would be succeeded by Markus Leinfellner.[8]

In the European Parliament in December 2024, Steger called for the return of "around 100,000 Syrian asylum seekers in Austria".[9] At a campaign event for the far-right Alternative for Germany in January 2025, Steger described the European Parliament as the “heart of injustice”.[10]

Committees and Delegations

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10th European Parliament

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  • Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
  • Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean

Personal life

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Steger is the daughter of former FPÖ leader and Vice-Chancellor of Austria Norbert Steger.

Steger was formerly a professional basketballer for Flying Foxes SVS, playing in the Austrian Women's Basketball Bundesliga from 2003 to 2017.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Austrian Parliament - Petra Steger" (in German). Retrieved 13 January 2014.
  2. ^ Daneshmandi, Laila (2017-12-22). "Das denken die Jugendsprecher über Österreichs Nachwuchs - kurier.at". Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
  3. ^ "FPÖ TV". YouTube. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
  4. ^ "Petra Steger - Abgeordnete zum EU Parlament". Meine Abgeordneten (in German). Retrieved 2025-02-12.
  5. ^ Oberascher, Karl; Hofer, Stefan; Gottsauner-Wolf, Moritz; Klatzer, Jürgen (2017-01-09). "Wie viel Islam verträgt eine liberale Gesellschaft?". kurier.at (in German). Retrieved 2025-02-12.
  6. ^ "FPÖ list for European elections 2024" (PDF).
  7. ^ "Österreich - Europawahl 2024". www.bundeswahlen.gv.at. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
  8. ^ "Sesselrücken nach EU-Wahl: FP-Leinfellner wechselt vorzeitig in den Nationalrat". www.kleinezeitung.at (in German). 2024-07-18. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
  9. ^ "Ausführliche Sitzungsberichte - Sturz des syrischen Regimes, seine geopolitischen Auswirkungen und die humanitäre Lage in der Region (Aussprache) - Dienstag, 17. Dezember 2024". www.europarl.europa.eu (in German). Retrieved 2025-02-14.
  10. ^ "Warum die FPÖ Jörg Haiders gedenkt und Rechts-außen-Medien nach Straßburg einlädt". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 2025-02-12.

See also

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