VIENNA (Reuters) – The leader of Austria’s conservatives, Chancellor Karl Nehammer, urged President Alexander Van der Bellen on Tuesday to formally task the far-right Freedom Party with forming a coalition after it won Sunday’s parliamentary election. “In my view it is a good tradition that the winner of the election is tasked with holding sounding-out […]
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Austria’s conservatives want far right to be tasked with forming coalition
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VIENNA (Reuters) – The leader of Austria’s conservatives, Chancellor Karl Nehammer, urged President Alexander Van der Bellen on Tuesday to formally task the far-right Freedom Party with forming a coalition after it won Sunday’s parliamentary election.
“In my view it is a good tradition that the winner of the election is tasked with holding sounding-out talks (with other parties),” he told reporters after a meeting of the leadership of his People’s Party that backed him as party leader. Van der Bellen should say what will happen next, he added.
(Reporting by Francois Murphy, Editing by Timothy Heritage)