Austria’s deadlock worsens as far-right exits coalition talks

The Popular Freedom Party in the right -wing Austria says it has ended its attempts to form an alliance government with the Conservative People’s Party, övp.

This announcement is followed by several weeks of hot negotiations, and it represents the second time that coalition talks have failed since the September elections.

Övp first tried to form an alliance of three parties with social Democrats and liberal New Niwa, then an alliance of two parties with socialist Democrats-but both of them collapsed.

With the inability of the Freedom Party to form a government, Austria is now in an unclear political situation.

The leader of the Freedom Party, Herbert Kikil, blamed övp for the collapse, who said that he is scheduled to oppose the minister’s positions.

He told President Alexander van der Beilin that he was abandoning the mandate to form what could have been the first government led by the extreme right in Austria since the founding of FPO by the former Nazis in the fifties.

The friendly European Freedom Party of Russia held a date in the general elections in September when opinion polls first topped 28.8 percent of the votes, and beat the tight counselor Karl Nihammer, who received 26.3 percent.

Nevertheless, in October, President Van der Bellin first gave Nihammer to form a government. However, these negotiations collapsed in early January, which led to Nehammer and paved the way for the temporary consultant Alexander Challenberg.

On January 6, Van Der Bellen Kickl gave an authorization to form a government after the efforts of other parties to establish an alliance without the Freedom Party failed.

Coalition negotiations in Austria usually remain secret, until a decision is reached. But in recent days, both parties issued data about their demands, indicating that the talks were in trouble.

The Freedom Party wanted the strong Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Interior, which was a major obstacle to övp. For its part, övp wanted to confirm the “absence of the Russian influence in Austria”, and Vienna remained “a reliable partner of the European Union.”

Kickl said on Wednesday that he was abandoning the mandate, and writes in a statement that he “does not take this step without regret.”

He continued: “övp insisted on clarifying the allocation of the governor at the beginning of February. Although we made concessions to övp at many points in subsequent talks, the negotiations did not eventually succeed, so much to our regret.”

Alexander Broell, the Secretary -General of övp, said that the talks had failed because Mr. Kiel was on a “power trip” and refused to settle.

“Herbert Kickel was involved in government negotiations. In 5 weeks, Kiele sat on the negotiating table for 7 hours,” he said.

“He did not fulfill his mandate to form … the center -right government. Instead, he insisted on all his demands, the imaginations of the total power and ended the talks.”

Political analyst Thomas Hoofer BBC told “there is no trust base” between the two parties.

“Kickl tried to build a Playbook book for Trump for” reserved promises “, but this is difficult in a coalition environment.

He said: “In the end, övp decided that the loss of the two main ministries with the unable to control Kickl’s adviser, and there was no highly fraught with confidence.”

Övp was the only party that was ready to negotiate with the Freedom Party.

Austria Alexander Van der Beilin says his country now has four options after the collapse of the coalition talks.

He said that these were new elections, a minority government, an expert government, or another attempt to form a government by parliamentary parties.

He said he would talk to the political parties in Austria during the next few days to find out the option that was realistic.

“The liberal democracy lives from a compromise,” he said.