In 2008, fewer than seventeen percent of the Freedom Party's voters questioned the existence of a unique Austrian national identity.[53] German nationalists, including Andreas Mölzer[54] and Martin Graf,[55][56] now refer to themselves as "cultural Germans" (Kulturdeutsche), and stress the importance of their identity as ethnic Germans, in contrast to the distinct Austrian national identity. In 2006, FPÖ members of parliament reaffirmed the party's root in the pan-Germanist tradition, at least symbolically, by wearing blue cornflowers in their buttonholes, along with ribbons in Austria's national colours (red and white), during the initial meeting of the National Council. This caused controversy, as the media interpreted the flower as a former Nazi symbol.[57]