Karl Nehammer he announced his intention to step down in the coming days in a statement on website X. – In the coming days I will resign as Chancellor and leader of the Austrian People's Party and I will enable a peaceful change, he said.
Earlier on Saturday, OeVP started a conversation about a coalition with the Social Democrats (SPOe). The negotiations ended in failure.
Negotiation failure. Problems with forming a government
On Friday in the liberal Nowa party withdrew from the tripartite coalition talks with OeVP and SPOe Austria and Forum Liberalne (NEOS). The group did not want to agree with budget for next year.
“The failure of coalition talks three months after the September parliamentary elections highlights this growing difficulties in creating stable governments in European countriessuch as Germany i Francewhere it grows stronger far rightbut many parties do not want to cooperate with them,” says Reuters.
Austria. Parliamentary elections for a right-wing party. A problematic coalition
September parliamentary elections in Austria the right-wing FPOe party won. The heads of all other parties announced that they will not rule together with FPOe. This led to this President Alexander van der Bellen handed over the mission of forming a new government to Karl Nehammer.
The president indicated that the reason for his decision was that the FPOe did not intend to withdraw its intention to put forward the party leader's candidacy for chancellor after the elections. -Herbert Kickl he will not find a partner who will make him federal chancellor. The party that wins the elections cannot automatically be given the mission of forming a government, said Alexander van der Bellen.
The groups that did not want to rule with the FPOe accuse the leader, Herbert Kickel, of, among others, connections with Russia i ekstremizm.