Hubert Gorbach is an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n politician and a member of the Alliance for the Future of Austria

Alliance for the Future of Austria

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 (BZÖ). Until April 2005, he was a leading member in the Freedom Party. Born in Vorarlberg

Vorarlberg

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, he was vice-governor of Vorarlberg until 2003.

In 2003, he succeeded Herbert Haupt

Herbert Haupt

----Herbert Haupt is an Austrian politician and former party chairman of the Austrian Freedom Party. Born in Seeboden, Carinthia, and a veterinarian by training, he was federal Minister of Social Services from 2000 till 2005 in a coalition government headed by Wolfgang Schüssel...

 as Vice-Chancellor of Austria. From February 2003 until June 2004, Gorbach was Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology in Austria in a coalition

Coalition

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 government headed by the People's Party

Austrian People's Party

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Before starting his political career, he was a manager in the textile

Textile

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 industry (Getzner).

He is married and is interested in horse

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He has praised Alexander Lukashenko

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's Belarus

Belarus

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, stating its elections are "up to West European standards".

In October 2011, Hubert Gorbach lost his driving licence because of driving under the influence.