Karl Nehammer, conservative chancellor, announced on X that he will leave his functions as chancellor and president of the People’s Party in the coming days.
For good reason: the failure of negotiations with the Social Democrats to try to form the next government, more than three months after the legislative elections, which took place on September 29, 2024,” report several media.
Unexpected, this decision would lead the country towards new early elections or force the conservatives to negotiate with the far right, which came first in the legislative elections.
This announcement by Karl Nehammer comes the day after the decision of the liberal “Neos” party to withdraw from tripartite negotiations to form a centrist government, and thus remove from power the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ, far right) which had collected 28.8% of the votes in the legislative elections, but was unable to find allies to form a government.
With 26.3% of the vote, the People’s Party of the resigning chancellor was in second place, followed in third place by the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ, center-left) with 21.1%. This led Karl Nehammer to initiate discussions with the SPÖ and Neos (9% of the vote) to form a government and block the far right.
Karl Nehammer says he is “…convinced that radicals do not offer the solution to a single problem, but live only to highlight the problems. I always fought for stability even if it wasn’t sexy in politics », reports francetvinfo.fr.
