 He is married and has three children.Following the 2008 general election which put the Freedom Party in third place, on October 28, 2008, he was elected the National Council's third president, despite heavy opposition by the Green Party of Austria, which fielded its own candidate, Alexander Van der Bellen, and by the Jewish community of Vienna, by artists and intellectuals who strongly disapprove of Graf.Efraim Zuroff from the Simon Wiesenthal Center also expressed deep concern over the ""well-known ties"" Graf has with extreme-right groups.