The Austrian Prime Minister, the conservative Karl Nehammer, announced this Saturday that will resign as chancellor and president of his party “in the coming days” after ending negotiations with the Social Democrats to try to form a Government.
«After the breakdown of coalition negotiations (…) I will abandon my two functions as chancellor and president of the Popular Party in the coming days and I will allow an orderly transition“Nehammer indicated in a message on the social network X, more than three months after the September 29 legislative elections that the extreme right won.
After three months of negotiations, the liberal Neos party He left the table this Fridaywith which the talks to form a Government in Austria between the parties that sought to form a coalition that would prevent the arrival to the Government of the extreme right of the FPÖ, the winner of the elections on September 29, were definitively broken.
Wir haben lange und redlich verhandelt. In wesentlichen Punkten ist mit der SPÖ no Einigung möglich. Die Volkspartei steht zu ihren Versprechen: Wir werden leistungs- und wirtschaftsfeindlichen Maßnahmen oder neuen Steuern nicht zustimmen. Daher beenden wir die Verhandlungen… pic.twitter.com/evKgQbtTwq
— Karl Nehammer (@karlnehammer) January 4, 2025
The FPÖ obtained 28.8% of the vote, but has been unable to find partners to form a national government. The conservative People’s Party (ÖVP) came second, with 26.3%, and the center-left Social Democrats (SPÖ) obtained 21.1%.
This led Nehammer to enter into talks with the SPÖ and the liberal NEOS party to form an Executive that would exclude the extreme right, but those three-way talks collapsed on Friday.
The two centrist parties promised to continue working, but a day later Nehammer announced in X that “it is not possible to reach an agreement with the SPÖ on key issues.” “Therefore, we terminate the negotiations», added Nehammer.
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