12/09/2002 (Agence Europe) - In Linz on Wednesday, the FPÖ's executive committee unanimously called for Jörg Haider to become leader of the party again. He said he would as long as the 21 September party convention confirmed it. The Austrian government decided last week to call early elections as a result of the crisis in the FPÖ and the resignation of FPÖ ministers, bringing polling day forward from October 2003 to 24 November 2002. According to a poll published on Wednesday, the FPÖ would poll no more than 17% (as opposed to the 27% it got in the 1999 elections), the Social Democrats would win 37%, Chancellor Schüssel's ÖVP 31% and the Greens 14%, which would suggest the return of an SPÖ-ÖVP coalition government. 80% of those polled opposed a renewal of the current -ÖVP-FPÖ coalition (which gave rise to sanctions from the EU in 1999).