 The NOES achieved their best result ever in the 2019 National Council elections, with 8.1% of the votes and 15 seats, a gain of five seats over the previous elections in 2017, but this number was insufficient to qualify them as a viable junior coalition party with the leading ÖVP.The Greens ("Die Grünen"), a party focusing on environmental and social justice issues as part of the worldwide Green movement, received 10.4% of the vote in 2008.They are particularly strong in the city areas, for example in Vienna, where they received 22% of the votes in the 2004 EU-elections.