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Chancellor Nehammer announces his upcoming resignation
Conservative Karl Nehammer ended his negotiations with the Social Democrats on Saturday and announced that he was leaving office.
Published today at 8:24 p.m.
The head of the Austrian social democratic party SPOe Andreas Babler, the head of the Austrian conservative party OeVP, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer and the head of the Austrian liberal party NEOS Beate Meinl-Reisinger speak to the press after the negotiations on the formation of a new government on November 18, 2024 in Vienna, Austria.
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Conservative Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer ended negotiations with the Social Democrats on Saturday to try to form a government. He immediately announced his resignation “in the coming days”.
Karl Nehammer said they had failed to reach agreement on key issues. “We negotiated long and hard. An agreement with the (social democratic party) SPÖ is not possible on key issues. We are therefore ending negotiations with the SPÖ,” he said in a message on the social network X.
“After the breakdown of coalition negotiations, I (…) will step down from both my functions as chancellor and president of the People’s Party in the coming days and allow an orderly transition,” he added, more than three months after the legislative elections of September 29 which saw the far right come first in the poll.
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