Walter Baier
Walter Baier, an Austrian politician and economist based in Vienna, assumed the presidency of the Party of the European Left in December 2022. Previously, Baier was the national chairman of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) from 1994 to 2006 and editor of the Austrian magazine Volksstimme. Since 2000, he has worked on dialogue between atheists and Catholics through the project DIALOP, leading in the last years to meetings with Pope Ratzinger and Pope Francis. From 2007 to 2022, he was political coordinator and board member of the transform! europe network.
Baier is currently the spitzenkandidat (top candidate) of the Party of the European Left for the presidency of the European Commission in the 2024 European elections.
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