Government formation in Austria: FPÖ boss Kickl before a decisive meeting!

In Austria there is a decisive meeting between Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen and the head of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), Herbert Kickl. This meeting, which is to take place late in the morning, could lead to Van der Bellen Kickl commissioning a new government. After the negotiations for a triple coalition between the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) and the NEOs have failed after six weeks due to significant differences in content, there are new approaches for discussions with the FPÖ. Kickl himself vaguely commented on the situation on Facebook.

The FPÖ, which won the parliamentary elections three months ago, was initially ignored in the previous coalition talks. However, the ÖVP has announced that the FPÖ have to be available for alliance talks, since there are agreement in the area of ​​economic, asylum and education policy. On the other hand, there are considerable differences in the areas of EU, foreign and security policy and ambiguities of how the budget crisis can be mastered. Austria is under pressure to renovate its budget to avoid EU deficit procedures.

political turbulence in the ÖVP

Chancellor Karl Nehammer has announced that it will resign after the failed coalition negotiations. The management of the ÖVP is taken over by Christian Stocker, the previous general secretary. Ex-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is not available as a successor. Nehammer will appoint a new chancellor to a transitional government in the coming week, while opinion researchers already put new elections into the room as a possible alternative, which, however, would probably only take place in about three months. In these new elections it is expected that the FPÖ could win even more clearly.

van der Bellen underlines the need for a capable and stable government and emphasizes the importance of the basic pillars of democracy. In the meantime, the political climate in the ÖVP went through a noticeable change due to the possible conversations with the FPÖ and the changes in the party leaders href = "https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/oevp-fpoe-koalition-koalungen-oesterreich-100.html"> ZDF reported.