Chancellor Karl Nehammer steps down after failed attempts to form a government without the far-right Freedom Party. President Van der Bellen faces difficult choices, including a snap election or a coalition with the FPO.
The leadership of Austria's ruling conservatives held a crisis meeting on Sunday to pick a successor to Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who announced his resignation on Saturday as attempts to form a coalition government without the far right fell apart.
The surprise collapse of three- and then two-party talks aimed at cobbling together a centrist coalition that could serve as a bulwark against the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) after the FPO came first in September's parliamentary election leaves President Alexander Van der Bellen with few options. A snap election with support for the eurosceptic, Russia-friendly FPO still growing or an about-face in which Van der Bellen tasks FPO leader Herbert Kickl with forming a government are now the most likely options, with only limited scope for alternatives or playing for time. 'It is not an easy situation,' Markus Wallner, the governor of Vorarlberg, the westernmost of Austria's nine provinces, told reporters before the People's Party (OVP) leadership meeting at the chancellor's office.Wallner said he opposed a snap election since that would delay the arrival of a new government by months. OVP governors are part of the leadership. Nehammer insisted during and after the election campaign that his party would not govern with Kickl because he was too much of a conspiracy theorist and posed a security risk while at the same time saying much of Kickl's party was trustworthy. Nehammer's departure makes it likely that whoever succeeds him will be more open to a coalition with the FPO, which is formally allied with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party
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