Austria's President Alexander Van der Bellen has tasked Freedom Party leader Herbert Kickl with forming a new government, marking a potential first for the country since World War II. Kickl's party won the September parliamentary election but previous attempts to form a government without the far right collapsed. Now, talks between the Freedom Party and the People's Party are expected to take place.
VIENNA — Austria’s president on Monday tasked Freedom Party leader Herbert Kickl with trying to form a new government, which would be the country’s first led by the far right since World War II.
The People’s Party then signaled that it might be open to working under Kickl. Van der Bellen said after meeting Kickl for about an hour at the presidential palace Monday that he had tasked the Freedom Party leader with holding talks with the People’s Party to form a new government. But in October, President Alexander Van der Bellen tasked Nehammer with trying to form a new government after Nehammer's party said it wouldn't go into government with the Freedom Party under Kickl and others refused to work with the Freedom Party at all. Those efforts to form a governing alliance without the far right collapsed in the first few days of the new year and Nehammer said Saturday that he would resign.
AUSTRIA FREEDOM PARTY HERBERT KICKL FAR RIGHT GOVERNMENT FORMATION
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