Ewald Stadler

On 7 November 1994, Stadler moved up to the National Council of Austria (Nationalrat) as an FPÖ member, where he remained until 28 April 1999.

On 1 July 2001, he became a Volksanwalt (ombudsman) at the Federal level, responsible for commerce and advertising, defense, schools and culture, police, and the administration of justice.

Starting in the summer of 2004, Stadler directed the Freedom Party Academy and was responsible for the training of FPÖ functionaries.

He announced on 16 August 2008, that he was joining the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) for the National Council election of 2008.

On 3 April 2009, Stadler was elected as the new party chief of the Lower Austria BZÖ with 97.7 percent of the vote.

[11] On 23 December 2013 (one day before Christmas Eve) Stadler, together with Rudolf Gehring of the Christian Party of Austria announced in a press conference they were founding a new party, The Reform Conservatives (REKOS) (German: Die Reformkonservativen) for which Stadler would run for the European Parliament election on 25 May 2014.

[15] In 2014, Ewald Stadler participated as a member of international observers groups who acknowledged the Eastern Ukrainian referendums in Crimea and in the Donetsk-Lugansk regions.

[16] Stadler is a member of the Catholic lay association Compagnia di Santa Maria della Mercede, affiliated with the Mercedarian order.