 After being reduced to 10% in the 2002 elections, they achieved 17.5% in 2008.Thanks to their strong performance in the 2017 national elections, the FPÖ became the junior partner in a government led by the ÖVP under Sebastian Kurz as Chancellor, but the government was ousted through a vote of no confidence as a result of a political scandal involving the FPÖ's leader, dubbed the Ibiza affair.The FPÖ suffered punishing losses in subsequent federal and state elections.