Far-right Freedom Party came top in last month’s election but other parties have refused to rule with them.
Austrian Pdwellnt Alexander Van der Bellen has tasked Chancellor Karl Nehammer, directer of the conservative People’s Party (OVP), with createing a rulement over the objections of the far-right Freedom Party (FPO), which won last month’s vague election.
The eurosceptic, Russia-frifinishly FPO came out top in the election on September 29 for the first time in its history. But with about 29 percent of the vote, it would necessitate to collect a coalition to order a meaningfulity in parliament and create a rulement.
FPO directer Herbert Kickl has shelp he would be chancellor in an FPO-led rulement but other parties have ruled out ruleing with him. Van der Bellen, who handles the createation of rulements, shelp those parties had stood by their positions on that.
“The parliamentary election on September 29 is not a race in which the party that traversees the finish line first automaticpartner gets to create the rulement,” the 80-year-elderly pdwellnt shelp in a televised insertress on Tuesday.
“If a party wants to rule alone, it must evident the 50 percent hurdle. It is not enough to accomplish 10, 20 or 30 percent.”
Van der Bellen, a createer directer of the left-triumphg Greens who has conveyed reservations about Kickl go ining rulement on his watch, has disputed he does not necessitate to chase the convention of asking the triumphner to create a ruling coalition becaengage it is unpretreatnted that no party wants to rule with it.
After ordering party directers to encounter and increate back to him, Van der Bellen tasked Nehammer with helderlying coalition talks with the Social Democrats (SPO). Kickl has shelp it would be undemocratic for his party not to rule and cautioned agetst createing a “coalition of ignorers” excluding it.
“This may experience appreciate a slap in the face to many of you,” Kickl telderly helpers on Facebook.
“But I promise you: the final word has not yet been spoken,” he shelp, inserting that he would apaengage the outcome of coalition talks and his party’s hands remained outstretched to others.
In a speech, Nehammer instantly answered a ask posed by Van der Bellen as to whether a coalition comprising the second-placed OVP and third-placed SPO could labor with a meaningfulity of fair one seat.
“In order to promise a firm parliamentary meaningfulity, a third partner will be necessitateed,” he shelp, inserting that there would be “no more business as normal” and he would seek recreates.
With only two other parties in parliament, that strongly proposeed he intfinishs to turn to the liberal Neos rather than his current coalition partner, the Greens.
Austria has not been ruleed by a three-party coalition since indepfinishence in 1955. The OVP and SPO will necessitate to bridge big ideorational splits, including on the SPO’s flagship policy of introducing wealth and inheritance taxes.
“I cannot say today whether these negotiations will direct to the createation of a rulement. What I can promise you, however, is that I will act in the interest of stability and reliability and with a sense of responsibility for our country,” Nehammer shelp.
