The Freedom Party, led by Herbert Kickl, is poised to become the senior coalition partner in Austria's next government after a series of political collapses.
Freedom Party led by Herbert Kickl will have talks on Monday about forming a new government for Austria. President Alexander Van der Bellen is meeting with Kickl after the collapse of centrist coalition talks and the resignation of centre-right chancellor Karl Nehammer. Last September the Freedom Party scored a historic election win, topping the poll with 28.85 per cent of the vote.
But Austria’s president, citing the party’s apparent lack of coalition partners, handed the mandate for coalition talks to the second-placed Mr Nehammer and his People’s Party. Talks with the Social Democrats and the Neos collapsed on Friday, with the Neos criticising the other parties’ lack of will for reform. Mr Nehammer’s own departure a day later killed off efforts to form a new government, sending Austria’s political centre into free-fall
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