The coalition, which is to start operating next week, will end the longest waiting for the new government in Austria since World War II. Austrian Freedom Party (FPOE), which won the September election, will not enter the office.
– The election winners cannot automatically rule – said the president Austria Alexander Van der Bellen, who did not entrust the mission of the government to create the FPOE leader, Herbert Kickl. The central coalition is to focus on political stability and the economy, as well as the fight against the budget deficit.
Elections in Austria. There is a new coalition
Although FPOE won 29 percent. votes in elections, Her leader Kickl did not manage to obtain coalition partners. Parties such as ÖVP or SPö refused to cooperate, and after the first unsuccessful conversations, the president entrusted the mission to create a government to central groups. “We refused the FPOE government to prevent them from coming to power,” emphasized the leader of SPö, Andreas Babler.
Coalition stability key in the face of crisis
The coalition will have to face many challenges, including the need to reduce the budget deficit and avoid internal conflicts, which in the past led to the fall of governments. – The first news that this government carries is “we are not Herbert Kicklem” – commented political scientist Thomas Hofer cited by the Reuters agency. Emphasized that The government must offer more than just “resistance to fpoe”to maintain citizens' support for five years of their term.