One of my favourite bits of trivia about Austrian law is that it is still defacto forbidden for a member of the Habsburg family to run for the Presidency. See:

One of my favourite bits of trivia about Austrian law is that it is still defacto forbidden for a member of the Habsburg family to run for the Presidency. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburg_Law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburg_Law The Austrian president has mostly a representative/safeguarding function and currently held by a chain-smoking former Professor who was a member of the green party.